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Domain-specific language

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language specialized to a specific application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose programming language, which is broadly applicable across domains. There are a wide variety of DSLs, ranging from widely used languages, such as SQL, down to languages used by only one or a few pieces of…

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MakefileYaccGraphVizSemanticsRuntime
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VerilogVHDLMATLABGNU OctaveMathematica
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Programming languageDomainGeneral-purpose languagesSQLMUSH
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Tools for designing domain-specific languages

JetBrains MPSProjectional editingLanguage workbenchMontiCoreXtext
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related to Further reading · 38
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related to External links · 36
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related to Usage patterns · 21
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related to Examples · 20
Domain-specific language → Csound, Description Language, Examples, Generic Eclipse Modeling System, GNU Octave, GraphViz, GrGen, HashiCorp, HashiCorp Configuration Language, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, Maxima, Puppet, Specification, SQL, Terraform, Verilog, VHDL, Yacc
related to Tools for designing domain-specific languages · 20
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related to Programming tools · 12
Domain-specific language → Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation, However, In, Object Constraint Language, OCL, Query/View/Transformation, QVT, Some, UML, Unified Modeling Language, XML, XSLT
related to In design and implementation · 11
Domain-specific language → Csound, Domain-specific, Eclipse Modeling Framework, For, Generic Eclipse Modeling System, Many, Often, Persistence, POV-Ray, The, Vision Ray Tracer
related to ColdFusion Markup Language · 9
Domain-specific language → CFML, ColdFusion, ColdFusion's, HTML, Java, NET, SMS, The, The ColdFusion Markup Language
related to GameMaker Language · 8
Domain-specific language → BASIC, Delphi, GameMaker Studio, GML, It, Most GML, The, The GameMaker
related to Generate model and services to multiple programming Languages · 7
Domain-specific language → Apache Thrift, Generate, Google Protocol Buffers, HTML, Interface Description Language, JavaScript, This

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Javainstance ofThe language is used to weave together languages and services0.80text
.NETinstance ofThe language is used to weave together languages and services0.80text
Cinstance ofThe language is used to weave together languages and services0.80text
JavaScript for web applicationsinstance ofThese languages provide a syntax for describing a Bayesian model and generate a method for solving it using simulation.Generate model and services to multiple programming Langua…0.80text
HTML for documentationinstance ofThese languages provide a syntax for describing a Bayesian model and generate a method for solving it using simulation.Generate model and services to multiple programming Langua…0.80text
Cinstance ofThese languages provide a syntax for describing a Bayesian model and generate a method for solving it using simulation.Generate model and services to multiple programming Langua…0.80text
Apache Thrift or Google Protocol Buffers.GherkinGherkin is a language designed to define test cases to check the behavior of softwareinstance ofThis is done by cross-language frameworks0.80text
without specifying how that behavior is implementedinstance ofThis is done by cross-language frameworks0.80text
JavaScript for web applicationsinstance ofGenerate model and services to multiple programming LanguagesGenerate object handling and services based on an Interface Description Language for a domain-specific language0.80text
HTML for documentationinstance ofGenerate model and services to multiple programming LanguagesGenerate object handling and services based on an Interface Description Language for a domain-specific language0.80text
Cinstance ofGenerate model and services to multiple programming LanguagesGenerate object handling and services based on an Interface Description Language for a domain-specific language0.80text
Apache Thrift or Google Protocol Buffersinstance ofThis is done by cross-language frameworks0.80text

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