Alan Kay gave a very interesting talk which I think the Clojure community might find enlightening. Specifically, near the end he talks about building a DSL by careful domain analysis. http://tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029
In relation to Clojure, are there lessons to learn from the Meta language he mentioned? Does anyone have references to it? His example from the talk deals with writing down the equations of graphics primitives in a mathematical way and then deriving executable code from the math. In the area of parallel and concurrent programming we have some "equations" that might form a basis of a mathematical formulation. See Parallel Program Design: A Foundation by K. Mani Chandy and Jayadev Misra Could we write the mathematics of ACID and STM and then derive correct, small implementations? Alan Kay makes a compelling argument that this could change the game. Tim Daly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
