http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660If anyone is interested I put up an (interpretation of) the State Machine described in the Martin Fowler referenced above using Rhino DSL/Boo here: http://www.codeplex.com/SimpleStateMachine http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment9http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment9Fri, 30 May 2008 06:36:43 GMTit compelled me to send you an email this time. p.s. http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment8http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment8Wed, 21 May 2008 18:52:18 GMTYes. That is exactly how it should be done! Yes. That is exactly what should be disliked! I believe we share the same yantra here... ;) http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment7http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment7Wed, 21 May 2008 17:55:40 GMTThere are several projects to provide support for boo in VS 2008, including intellisense. Yes, you would need to create your own DSL for that, not a hard task http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment6http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment6Wed, 21 May 2008 13:02:56 GMTThank you. Your test setup helped me understand. So the DSL using Boo is in a class library that the C# main project can call? I can see now why using Boo for a DSL is so powerful. I'd love to see a Boo MS MVC - that would be incredible. Not to tax you, but a simple Boo 'hello world' MS MVC app with Boo controllers, actions and UI would open the door to a world of new possibilities! (Currently I use Spring.NET, NHibernate and MVC for my web applications) Questions: 1. Is there any intellisense, etc... support using Boo in VS 2008 ? (I use resharper) 2. I've seen you replace xml with Boo for Binsor. I'd like to see Boo replace Spring.NET and NHibernate mapping files. I assume this would be equivalent of creating my own DSL? Lastly, with Boo being so unheard of (not to diminish it), and it's capability so high with DSL's - I do think 'selling it' as a DSL language would create more interest. Sorry if this is not understood, I'm just exploring the capabilities - sky is the limit here, getting acceptability in the workplace is another issue - although 'DSLs' are quite the buzzword ! Creating a Boo DSL API to be called by any .net language would be where I'd go with it initially. I'll go buy your book :) Thank you http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment5http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment5Wed, 21 May 2008 12:19:48 GMTIf you are programming in C#, you can utilize DSL that uses Boo, yes. You don't have to write your applications in Boo, but you will be happier if you do :-) Yes, Boo supports MS MVC. http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment4http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment4Tue, 20 May 2008 23:18:58 GMTI look forward to your book so I can figure this complexity out. If I'm programming in C#, can I use this Boo syntax? I'm confused how this all works. Or do I have to write my app in Boo ? Does Boo support asp.net mvc? Confused - I just see those small snippets of code but don't get the bigger picture http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment3http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment3Tue, 20 May 2008 22:48:50 GMTYou can't express any sort of advance concept in XAML. Only prop assignments, and those aren't nearly enough http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment2http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment2Tue, 20 May 2008 20:48:08 GMTWhat about XAML as a facility for DSLs? http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment1http://ayende.com/3327/it-is-not-the-parser-i-fear#comment1Tue, 20 May 2008 20:33:28 GMT