I’ve been busy, working on two very interesting projects these past several weeks (on the side – my current project for work is unbelievably mind-numbing). Both these projects are in Ruby and use Ruby On Rails. There, got that out of the way.
I’ve always been in search of software designs that result in a clean DSL (Domain Specific Language)… lisp style, bottom up, bring the language up to the problem, rather than the other way around, etc. What I’ve managed so far is a set of mini-DSLs in my applications. One for each module, so to speak.
And perhaps, that is the way things work in general; rather than the unrealistic goal of building *one* DSL which is supposed to capture your entire domain – build several, smaller ones, which each capture aspects of the domain.
