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Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, 1997
Domain Specific Languages for ad hoc Distributed Applications
Matthew Fuchs
Walt Disney Imagineering
Abstract
The Internet provides a medium to combine human and computational
entities together for ad hoc cooperative transactions. To make
this possible, there must be a framework allowing all parties (human
or other) to communicate with each other. The current framework makes
a fundamental distinction between human agents (who use HTML) and
computational agents, which use CORBA or COM. We propose DSLs as a
means to allow all kinds of agents to ``speak the same language.'' In
particular we adopt some ideas (and syntax) from SGML/XML, especially
the strict separation of syntax and semantics, so each agent in a
collaboration is capable of applying a behavioral semantics
appropriate to its role (buyer, seller, editor). We develop the
example of a card game, where the syntax of the language itself
implies some of the semantics of the game.
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