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April 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:45 AM

SPA Conference

As always, the SPA conference www.spaconference.org was stimulating. Gareth Jones and I ran a workshop on "software factories and DSLs". Some of the points that came out clearly for me: Composing languages. It’s a big investment to create a DSL from scratch;
Posted by Alan Cameron Wills | 6 Comments
Monday, April 25, 2005 5:45 AM

Model Taxonomy

At the excellent SPA conference ( www.spa2005.org ) John Daniels led a workshop session " A Taxonomy of Models". Defining “model” as including any kind of language, he made a table of how models are used; or rather, he wrote the outer headings and we
Posted by Alan Cameron Wills | 5 Comments
Monday, April 25, 2005 5:09 AM

The Joy of DSLs

Nice post from David Ing: http://www.from9till2.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6011a529-8914-4160-8f2f-0ce7b988310c
Posted by Alan Cameron Wills | 0 Comments
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:56 PM

Models and Programs

What's the word "Model" useful for? People use it for all sorts of stuff, usually as distinct from "Program". Here's some definitions, ending up with the one I like best. Model = pictures (my score: 4/10) UML is 'modeling' because it's mostly pictures
Posted by Alan Cameron Wills | 2 Comments
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