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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Story of a Domain-Specific Language
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In this chapter, several fundamental concepts and engineering techniques for software languages are explained by means of an illustrative domain-specific language. In particular, we exercise the internal and external styles of DSL implementation, textual and visual syntax, parsing, interpretation, and code generation. As a running example, we deal with a DSL for finite state machines FSML (FSM Language). In addition to implementing FSML with mainstream languages and technologies, we discuss design and implementation options and concerns overall and we describe a number of “recipes” for DSL development.