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The minimum infrastructure for running languages and models

In my last post I wrote about what constitutes a language, and what you might want to call the data structures that don’t. In this one I…

Jun 24, 2022

The minimum infrastructure for running languages and models

Jun 24, 2022

When is something a (domain-specific) language?

Customers often ask me: what is a DSL? How is a language different from … and then they mention all kinds of other terms. This is a great…

Jun 18, 2022

When is something a (domain-specific) language?

Jun 18, 2022

Thinking vs. Coding

When I was growing up as a programmer, it was the time of object-oriented-everything. You were first supposed to do object-oriented…

Jun 5, 2022

Thinking vs. Coding

Jun 5, 2022

Why documents shouldn’t be the basis of a domain analysis

DSL design requires that you first understand the domain for which you want to build the language, so the analysis of how stuff works is a…

Apr 22, 2022

Why documents shouldn’t be the basis of a domain analysis

Apr 22, 2022

Introducing a tool successfully

A couple of concrete steps to take

Mar 26, 2022

Mar 26, 2022

Why it is so hard to change established processes in organizations

Or why so many DSL projects fail for non-technical reasons

Nov 16, 2021

Why it is so hard to change established processes in organizations

Nov 16, 2021

The split brain of DSLs

Why it isn’t enough for a DSL to just capture the domain.

Oct 27, 2021

Oct 27, 2021

The Language Testing Triangle

I often get the question: how do you test a language — or more specifically, a language implementation in a tool like MPS or Xtext. That’s…

Sep 21, 2021

The Language Testing Triangle

Sep 21, 2021

Tool Lock-in vs. Semantic Lock-in

There’s a lot of discussion about lock-in relative to vendors and tools. I am confronted with these discussions in the context of…

Sep 10, 2021

Sep 10, 2021

Why does everybody hate programming (and why this must change)?

DSLs and Subject Matter Experts

Aug 29, 2021

Aug 29, 2021

Markus Voelter

Markus Voelter

software (language) engineer, science & engineering podcaster, cross-country glider pilot. On medium mostly for the software stuff.

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