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DomainSpecificLanguages terminology.
KonstantinosTourlas? reported on
VisualLanguages (or
diagrammatic languages), well-known examples being
UML or
SDL.
He particularly mentions IEC 1131-3, a family of languages designed by control
engineers for developing programmable logic controller (PLC) software.
Two of the four languages in this standard are
diagrammatic, the diagrams being direct derivations from circuit-like
and Petri-net-like notations which existed in the domain long before
the introduction of programmable controllers.
LabView?, geared towards
domains in electronic engineering, could be taken as a further
example, as could be the diagrammatic versions of Lustre and
Signal.
All these languages enjoy widespread use in industry but have so far
attracted only very limited interest within computing. As far as IEC
1131-3 goes, known to few computer scientists interested in safety,
the focus is usually on applying formal methods around it rather than
studying it as a programming language per se.
As regards the relation of
DSLs to end-user programming, I believe
Nardi's book, "A small matter of programming:perspectives on end-user
computing", which addresses exactly this relation, to be of some
interest to you. It is published by MIT press.
-- Excerpted from email by
ArieVanDeursen
KonstantinosTourlas?'s remarks made me realize that the annual
IEEE VisualLanguages Conferences could be strongly related to
DomainSpecificLanguages.
Susan Uskudarli while at the University Of Amsterdam worked in the area of visual langauges: she has developed some techniques
on specifying visual grammars (visually) in order to derive parsers
and editors. (see, e.g.,
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/87050.html ).
Most of her work was published in the
IEEE conferences
on
VisualLanguages. We did not refer to those conferences in our survey,
which, in retrospect and after reading your comments, strikes me as
a bit odd.
--
ArieVanDeursen
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