[barcampgr] Topics

[John Van Enk]

Well, part of the reason they are Light Weight is because we don't
have to invent a new parser/lexer/grammar--so we're not dealing with a
"new" language. Programmers don't need to learn a new one (but even if
they did, it's worth it in many cases).

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Zach Dennis<zach.dennis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Adam Tauno
> Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:59 -0400, John Van Enk wrote:
>>> Would any one be interested in Haskell + Light Weight Domain Specific Languages?
>>
>> Interested, yes.  I hear about these all the time;  I'd really like to
>> see a demonstration where the productivity gain justifies the existence
>> of yet-another-language.
>
> Sounds like a good session topic. I'd like to sit in on this kind of
> discussion (not necessarily pertaining strictly to Haskell, but *why*
> languages need to be justified in order to exist).
>
>
>> All I ever hear about such things are
>> theoretical arguments [which usually remind me of the time a 'CS guru'
>> scolded me on why the use of COBOL was syntactically more appropriate to
>> financial applications vs. using object oriented tool chains].
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Matt Heusser<matt.heusser at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > If I can make it this year, i'd consider doing either "testing for
>>> > developers'" or possibly something on "interfacing with tippies"
>>> > tippies are people who are neuro-typical.  They consider themselves
>>> > "normal."  They don't watch star trek, or even Babylon 5.  /They/ would call
>>> > the talk something like "How to win friends and influence people."  Crazy.
>>> > And they think there is something wrong with /us/ and call us aspergers or
>>> > austic.
>>> >
>>> > wi
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