Purpose-Built Languages.

The article discusses the role played in systems development by the ecosystem of purpose-built languages. Purpose-built languages defy a definition, the author states, but seem smaller than full-fledged programming languages, are not always Turing-complete, and can lack formal grammars and parsers....

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 36 - 42
Main Author:	Shapiro, Mike
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Apr2009
Subjects:	Programming languages Software engineering Computer software Application software Systems engineering Turing (Computer program language)
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