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10. DSL and Parser Combinator

David Pollak1  , Vishal Layka2 and Andres Sacco3
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
(2)
Bruxelles, Belgium
(3)
Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a special-purpose language designed to express solutions to problems that belong to a particular problem domain. DSLs have an advantage over a general-purpose language such as Scala and Java. Unfortunately, these general-purpose languages have drawbacks. For example, if you want to execute a task on a database, then it is necessary to write a computer program to execute this task ...

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