ACM Computing Surveys 28A(4), December 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. See the permissions statement below.
Abstract: A short treatise on how and why we should design domain-specific embedded languages to solve the problem of building and gracefully evolving large and complex software systems.General Terms: Programming Languages, Interpreters, Functional Programming, Domain Specific Languages, Software Architecture
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