Re: Re: Pragmatic Requirements Summary : update

Martin DeMello <martindemello-/[email protected]> Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:39:46 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.pragmatic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Brian Hurt <[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding of the pragmatic philosophy was 180 degrees seperate.  
> Being pragmatic meant not beleiving in golden hammers- *any* golden 
> hammer.  You learn a new language a year so you know a lot of languages, 
> and can use the right one for the job. Tip #17 is "program close to the 
> problem domain".  Up to and including inventing new languages that are 
> even closer to the problem domain.  

Which is why my ideal language is a kitchensink of features to let you easily
build any given dsl atop it.

martin

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