From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T03:27:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a DSL in ruby


On Jul 2, 11:08 am, "David Chelimsky" <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can even get more natural language using eval - imagine this expressed as:
>
> charge 10 dollars on 07/02/2007 then charge 20 dollars every month for
> 12 months starting on 08/01/2007
>
> Check out Jay Fields' writing on Business Natural Languages:
>
> http://bnl.jayfields.com/01_introduction.html

Tricky.  It's like a super-fluent interface hidden behind a parser.
Personally, I have no trouble with all the dots and parens, but I can
definitely appreciate how it would be nicer for domain experts not to
necessarily have to deal with them.

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-yossef