Creating Your Own Programming Language
Among the thousands of programming languages in existence are hundreds of “domain-specific languages” (DSLs) that have been adapted from traditional languages so that non-programmers can do their work more efficiently. DSLs are used in a wide range of fields, from web development (HTML) and database management (SQL) to genetics and machine learning (TensorFlow). One challenge with DSLs is that they’re not always easy to create. In languages like C++ you usually have to hire an expert programmer to design the DSL by looking at programs you’ve written for your work to figure out common elements that should be incorporated, and…
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