By Peter Bell

Intentional Software Starts to Share

Apart from an OOPSLA presentation in 2006 and a Technology Review article earlier this year, there really hasn't been that much information coming out of Intentional - one of the most interesting developers of Language Workbench/Domain Specific Modeling tooling.

Today, Magnus Christerson their VP of Marketing/Product Management blogged about some of their new press coverage.

The first piece isn't very informative, but the second provides an overview of how Intentional is positioning the software and a release date of "this fall".

Whether or not you plan to use the Intentional platform, a very smart team has been working on this for a long time and there are going to be plenty of lessons to be learned - hopefully from the marketing as well as the underlying technology.

Of course, if you can't wait, Intentional aren't the only game in town :->.

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Neal Ford on Language Oriented Programming

Over at The Server Side they have a link to the video and slide deck of this preso on Language Oriented Programming from JavaOne.

Most of the content is pretty intoductory, there is (IMO) a hugely wasteful detour into Fluent programming which seems to me to be tangential at best, and the section at the end seems to be a complete reworking of Fowlers seminal post (to be fair, I'm sure it is with permission as he is attributed and they both work at ThoughtWorks). He also missed some LOP players like Metacase while still mentioning Intentional who are conceptually pioneers in the space but who still haven't shipped working code.

At least the deck had some nice pictures that liven up Fowlers original textual piece and some screen shots of JetBrains MPS which (with their intelliJ credentials) could be a platform to watch.

Thoughts?

The Truth About XML vs. Scripting

There seems to be a perennial debate about the benefits of XML config files vs. script based configuration in both the Java and ColdFusion worlds. The goal of this posting is to clarify the relative strengths and weaknesses of these (and other) approaches. Want to understand the debate? Read the posting!

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OOP – Mutant offspring of Language Design?

I’ve never really though through the implications of DSLs before, but it makes an interesting benchmark for comparing functional, Object Oriented and other approaches to application design . . .

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