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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.