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January 2005 - Posts

Monday, January 31, 2005 11:02 AM

DSLs and customization

Fred Thwaites has asked a question in response to this post . He asks: "Does this imply that in general users of DSL in VS2005 will need to be aware of this metamodel, or will VS2005 come with a comprehensive set of predefined DSL's filling all the cells
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Friday, January 14, 2005 11:31 PM

New blog

My friend Jean Bezivin, a well-known figure in the 'model engineering' research community, has started a blog . There are already a couple of good posts worth reading. I look forward to reading more.
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Friday, January 14, 2005 7:46 PM

Walkthroughs for DSL tools available

Three tutorial documents which 'walk through' various aspects of the December release of our DSL Tools are now available for download in a zip file. You can also navigate to them from the DSL Tools December release .
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:12 PM

Why we view a domain model as a tree

In some feedback to my last posting, there was a question about why we visualized a domain model as a tree, with the point that this seemed inappropriate for some domain models. This is an interesting question, and warrants a more public response. So,
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:59 PM

The UML / DSL debate

There's been some debate between some of my MSFT colleagues ( Alan Wills , Steve Cook , Jack Greenfield ) and Grady Booch and others over at IBM around UML and DSLs. For those interested, Grady actually posted an article on UML and DSLs back in May last
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