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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: On DSLs
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 20:05:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1hkUA7Ue4shLmNU-_Zp48HK98p4j386H1J6Kfh+P6BvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e3narto.fsf_-_@gnu.org>

Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 10:52, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> That’s not true.  In some cases, people write something that’s actually
> code (in YAML, in JSON, etc.) and there’s an interpreter running it.
> There’s usually no tooling coming with that interpreter, in particular
> no debugger, error reporting may not be optimal either, and the
> semantics may be ill-defined (I’m getting close to Greenspun’s tenth
> rule :-)).  It’s just that it’s not presented that way, but that’s what
> it is.

Out of curiosity, do you have examples about YAML or JSON with an
interpreter running it?


Thank for this interesting discussion. :-)

Cheers,
simon

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-02 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-23 16:37 Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-24  9:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-24  9:32   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-24 16:28     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-24 16:42     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-10-24 18:16       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-24 19:23         ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-24 20:04           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-24 21:35             ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-25  9:29               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-31 11:38                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-03 14:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-04 10:39   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-04 11:06     ` zimoun
2019-11-05  6:26     ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-05  8:35       ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-05  9:03         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-05  9:09           ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-05  9:22             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-05 15:36       ` zimoun
2019-11-05 16:05         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-06 12:09           ` zimoun
2019-11-07 13:07             ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-06 17:07           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 22:21             ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-07 13:52             ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-06 16:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-07  7:46         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-07  9:04           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-07 11:14             ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-07 11:36               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-09 17:59               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-10  9:36                 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-11 15:56                   ` A better XML, config is code (was Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line...) Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-11-13 15:28                     ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-12  8:55                   ` Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Andy Wingo
2019-11-12 20:07                     ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-13 20:58                     ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-16 22:02                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-17 10:44                     ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-18 14:25                       ` zimoun
2019-11-19 10:24                         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-23 17:10                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-25 11:06                         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-26  9:51                           ` On DSLs Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-02 19:05                             ` zimoun [this message]
2019-12-02 19:11                               ` Julien Lepiller
2019-12-03 10:19                                 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-12-03 14:12                                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-12-03 15:46                                     ` zimoun
2019-12-04  6:33                                     ` Bengt Richter
2019-12-10 16:26                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-08  8:48                               ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-12-03 10:26                             ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-12-03 12:00                               ` zimoun
2019-11-11 14:13           ` Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-16 22:27           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-17 11:30             ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-18 14:40               ` zimoun
2019-12-22 19:40               ` Andreas Enge
2019-12-22 20:39                 ` Pjotr Prins
2019-11-18 14:15             ` zimoun
2019-11-26  9:36               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 16:42     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-07 12:57       ` zimoun
2019-11-17 10:35         ` Package inputs in manifests Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-17 23:11           ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-18 17:14             ` zimoun
2019-11-23 14:05             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-24  5:49               ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-24  7:17                 ` Timothy Sample
2019-11-25  3:42                   ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-18 16:18           ` zimoun

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