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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-21 19:10:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-21 19:10:42 +0100 |
| commit | bd0ffbcc4e0f7abf5e811850fb9ebd93ca649966 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d544232d6871429713d2c761cd14f1ac6d3e926 /dsl.mdwn | |
| parent | a5e3b5aeb7483586885f927bdb98a423e1531938 (diff) | |
Elaborate on DSLs, IDLs, code analysis, etc.
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diff --git a/dsl.mdwn b/dsl.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..28f70d7d --- /dev/null +++ b/dsl.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="DSL"]] + +A *DSL* is a *domain-specific language* ([[!wikipedia Domain-specific_language +desc="Wikipedia article"]]). + +Compared to general-purpose programming languages, these are a candidate for +[[open_issues/formal_verification]]. + +DSLs are frequently used as [[IDL]]s for implementing [[RPC]] systems, but can +also used for other portions of the [[kernel]], such as [[capability]] systems. +This is exemplified for [[microkernel/Barrelfish]] in +{{$microkernel/barrelfish#fof_plos09}}, for example. |