[Python-ideas] Why shouldn't Python be better at implementing Domain Specific Languages?

[Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer]

i believe a DSL is simple enough for an enthusiastic py programmer to write
if you really wanted one

just write the tasks you need to accomplish, the data needed, the
constrcuts needed (if needed), the feel/look of it on your editor

plan first, come up with a good mock, then implement it. implementation is
easy, ideas are hard. good ideas offload the efforts on the implementation
side, they can also save you future troubles

let me take an example :

a DSL to calculate the cost of houses

aim : calculate cost of houses

input :
num of houses
price of house

output :
price of houses

technical tasks :
show to screen

it might go on like that

--- file ---

house num 1,000
house price 250,000
calculate sum

--- output ---

$ 250 000 000

in the above example, assumptions were made and functions crammed but you
have a dsl. real-life dsls are not far from the specs of this one but
differ in the tools used

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ
Mauritius
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