Re:Ask HN: Lisp users, how powerful is metalinguistic progra...
by simon_acca on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:02PM
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A good perspective on this is to just think of the programmers as another “component” of your system that you have to design an API towards, just like a DB or a device.
DSLs and Metalinguistic capabilities in general are fantastic for this one very specific task, but for this task only.
For everything else, data is a much better abstraction than a DSL, because it’s a pain to get computers to work with DSLs. For an example of where this has gone wrong, look no further than where we are at with SQL.
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