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....
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 36 - 42 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Apr2009
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| Sumario: | 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. The author examines two questions which include whether software engineering is being done on fewer languages over time and the characteristics of a computer language that make it better suited for particular tasks. |
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