Thursday, September 23, 2010

DSL, a book for the coming winter


On Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321712943?ie=UTF8&tag=martinfowlerc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0321712943

and on Safari
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780132107549


I keep telling myself that if you master the implementation of DSL you can quickly become the king on any IT project. There is simply too much mismatch between the domain description and the actual coding of the solution. Too much boilerplate and fluff that makes it hard for the Business to review the code, and to code the solution too.

Here an  interesting interview with M. Fowler on DSLs:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1637532

from which we learn the Sturgeon's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law :
"Nothing is always absolutely so"
"Ninety percent of everything is crud."

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