Why is there a cabal file at all?

[Conal Elliott]

Hi Marc.

See Paul Hudak's position
paper<http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak-paul/hudak-dir/ACM-WS/position.html>on
DSELs, where you'll find definition, motivation & examples.  See also
Peter
Landin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Landin>'s "Next 700" paper.
If you have questions, please ask!

BTW, I hear both "EDSL" and "DSEL", and I don't recall which is more in
vogue and what reasons are for one or the other.  Maybe Paul or someone
could comment.

Cheers,  - Conal

On 1/10/07, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:41:57PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:
> >    Marc points out that the expressiveness of the Cabal language is
> >    insufficient for some packages, and a DSEL would be more expressive.
> Sorry, I've never heard abaut DSEL yet.
> I still feel like beening a total beginner.. ;)
> But I'll try to fill this lack of knowledge.
> I was thinking in IO monads as I didn't know something better..
>
> Conal : Can you help me lifting my skills and tell me in some sentences
> how a build system could benefit from DSELs?
>
> Marc
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