DSL

• Domain-specific languages (DSLs)

  • Languages designed for specific tasks/domains.
  • Examples:
    • Gherkin – executable behavior specifications for Behavior/Driven/Development
    • SQL – for relational database queries
    • Regex – for text pattern matching
    • HTML – for web layout
    • CSS - for web design
    • Makefile – for build automation
    • LaTeX – for document preparation
    • Datascript / Datalog – for logic-based data querying
  • These are sometimes declarative, expressing what you want rather than how to compute it.