http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660haha..looks like i should have read the other comments first..lol i'd like to hear what you thought of the erlang book..been eyeing it myself.. http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment9http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment9Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:03:46 GMTenterprise integrations patterns...great book http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment8http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment8Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:01:10 GMTChad, There are several purposes for creating a DSL. This is not one that I will show to a business user, it is something that I want to do for myself. The idea here is that the receive / message primitives are going to handle non-blocking waits on the thread, erlang style. This is very powerful concept when you are talking about concurrent programming http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment7http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment7Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:35:45 GMTBlasted whitespace stripping... http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment6http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment6Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:49:04 GMTWhat is that trying to accomplish? I thought DSLs were supposed to present something that a mere mortal (non-IT user) could understand. Heck, I can barely understand that. I think old if(){ } statements would better. I've had luck in the past showing well-constructed, simple business logic in C# to non-IT folks and having them understand it. It seems like this might be preferable: public void OnReceive( Message message ) { if( message.AddressID == null ) { Address.FromMessage(message).Create(); } else if { Address addr = LoadAddress(message.AddressID); Address.FromMessage(addr, message).Save(); } else { throw new MessageNotUnderstoodException(); } } http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment5http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment5Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:48:40 GMTThat DSL is just gibberish to me. The only thing I could parse was MessageNotUnderstood(). http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment4http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment4Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:21:44 GMTHehe, yeah. I am going to finish it and post about, very interesting. http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment3http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment3Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:04:12 GMTJoe Armstrong's book on erlang (which I've just read). http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment2http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment2Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:33:31 GMTThe Yellow Pages Ha ha gotcha. http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment1http://ayende.com/2870/by-the-dsl-guess-what-i-am-reading#comment1Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:48:25 GMT