[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and scripting

[Martin Erwig]

On May 3, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Limestraël wrote:

> Thank you all, that's very interesting.
> 
> Martin, I've started reading the paper, I like the way you think about what a scripting language should provide ("traceability, error handling and a type system").
> But, hold me if I'm wrong, but at no moment in the paper you made you own language? It's a EDSL, not a DSL,

That's correct. We have defined a DSEL, but in my view this is still a DSL; the "E" only refers to a specific way of implementing it.

> so I don't see where is the scripting, since the program will always have to be recompiled, won't it?

I may have misunderstood your goals and what you mean by "scripting". Our DSEL is intended to be used for expressing all kinds of scripting tasks.


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Martin