Comments on: Rounded Corners – 26 http://labnotes.org/2006/09/19/rounded-corners-26/ Tue, 15 May 2012 02:41:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Assaf http://labnotes.org/2006/09/19/rounded-corners-26/comment-page-1/#comment-12718 Assaf Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:53:13 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/09/19/rounded-corners-26/#comment-12718 I think those are good examples because the resulting language suffers from attention to tags over attention to features. XML makes a stronger point. But I've seen the same problem with any language that can't move outside it's domain. ABAP, Access Basic, ActionScript, Apple's what-were-they-thinking Automator. Think of it from an economic sense. Developing a good language takes a lot of work. You need feedback, you need libraries, you need optimization, an eco-system, there's a lot of work that goes into making a language useful. If a language is only good for one specific problem, it never gets that much attention to evolve into a great language. I think those are good examples because the resulting language suffers from attention to tags over attention to features.

XML makes a stronger point.

But I’ve seen the same problem with any language that can’t move outside it’s domain. ABAP, Access Basic, ActionScript, Apple’s what-were-they-thinking Automator.

Think of it from an economic sense. Developing a good language takes a lot of work. You need feedback, you need libraries, you need optimization, an eco-system, there’s a lot of work that goes into making a language useful.

If a language is only good for one specific problem, it never gets that much attention to evolve into a great language.

]]> By: ryan king http://labnotes.org/2006/09/19/rounded-corners-26/comment-page-1/#comment-12713 ryan king Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:32:04 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/09/19/rounded-corners-26/#comment-12713 To be fair, the external DSLs you cite as bad examples share common trait - XML. Maybe it's the XML that should be blamed? To be fair, the external DSLs you cite as bad examples share common trait – XML. Maybe it’s the XML that should be blamed?

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