Designing a language is hard; implementing it shouldn't be

Designing a language is hard; implementing it shouldn't be Frans Bouma has an interesting point: Designing a language is hard, and M won't change that. And he's right. For many domains, a DSL can make expressing what's important easier so that the developers using the DSLs can communicate between themselves and to a computer with fewer lines of code, making it easier to read, check and maintain. Many (arguably most) domains live without a DSL, instead encoding design decisions into general

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