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Domain Specific Language

There is many DSL implementation patterns:

• Internal DSL
  • smart API
  • fluent API
  • syntax tree manipulation
  • typed embedding
  • reflective metaprogramming
  • runtime metaprogramming
  • compile time metaprogramming
• External DSL
  • parser combinator
  • mixing DSL and embedded foreign code
  • xml to consumable resource

Internal DSL are embedded the host programming language while Extenal DSL are created from scratch with in parse / process steps.

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