On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 23:02 +0000, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Consider the C language. It is one language. It doesn't use (host)
> other languages.
Well, this is rather debatable.
Firs,t there's the C pre-processor, which is a different language.
#ifdef SOMETHING
# ifdef SOMETHING_ELSE
. . .
# endif SOMETHING_ELSE
#else SOMETHING
. . . .
#endif SOMETHING
(the tokens on else and endif were originally ignored and written like
that by convention; i once suggested something similar for XML, e.g.
</div id="percy">
where the id attribute has to match the one in the start tag, for the
same reason - extra error checking.
C also has regular expressions in the standard library; originally
these were system-dependent extensions, and POSIX standardized them.
If you search for domain specific language (DSL), you'll find a ton of
them for different applications; it's quite common. Often, i refer to
XPath as a DSL for tree-structured data such as one might interchange
with XML.
Liam
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