http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell. en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 04:57:45 -0400 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:46:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss test@test.com test@test.com http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/29/Describing-Grammars--Defining-a-Syntax I have spent some time looking at Backus-Naur Form, Extended BNF, schemas, DTDs, Relax NG and various other concrete textual syntaxes for describing grammars (some of them define XML specific grammars, but the concepts are close enough to compare both grammar and schema languages). I am currently playing with my own syntax, which I find a little more useful for me than any of the alternatives I’ve found to date for the class of declarative DSLs I’m focused on as an Active Data Modeler . . . [More] Application Generation Grammar Domain Specific Languages Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:46:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/29/Describing-Grammars--Defining-a-Syntax http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/23/A-Generic-Syntax-Description-Language-for-Domain-Specific-Languages I am really not a language or compiler guru. That said, I have been playing with a generic set of concepts required to fully describe any abstract syntax for a domain specific language with a context free grammar. Lots of buzz words in one sentence, so let me explain the concepts and propose the meta-grammar and an efficient method to describe it . . . [More] Application Generation Grammar Domain Specific Languages Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:11:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/23/A-Generic-Syntax-Description-Language-for-Domain-Specific-Languages