Re: Re: October PragPub released

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Michael Swaine wrote:

> "Language-confused era": I like that.
> I get what you're saying about internal DSLs, but the term is pretty
> well established. Martin Fowler, for example, talks about external vs.
> internal DSLs here:
> http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html

Yeah, and I actually read part of it just before replying in the first 
place, probably because of a reference from your mag.

So, how did the term get established? Back in the day, I would make 
something and it would get called just an evil weirdo API, and then two 
years later, someone else would make the same thing and it would get 
called an internal DSL. So I was like, whatev, and I just continued 
calling my APIs just APIs or something. But over five years later, the 
word hasn't just gone away, so, I figure out, I may as well ask why it 
exists and what it's for...

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