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- Subject: Re: Switch/Case statements revisited
- From: "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:40:43 +0200
Ah, what I was thinking is that it is easy to customize Lua to _be_
the DSL, rather than parsing and translating yet another little
language. Haskell would seriously scare your users if you exposed
them to it ;)
steve d.
On 11/11/07, Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Lua is a very good language for writing DSLs (or 'little languages'
> > as the old-style Unix people called them).
>
> With respect, I find Lua not such a good language for writing DSLs.
> Haskell is a very good language for writing DSLs; compared to Haskell,
> I find Lua barely adequate for these sorts of experiments.