Microsoft and Domain Specific Languages
For the last few days, I've been working on the new Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. To say the least, it looks quite good and promising to invest some time exploring it! However, as I was trying to understand how a DSL differed from a UML profile, I ran into this
interesting blog post from Grady Booch that explains why the term Software Factories that Microsoft choose is not apt. The blog post also compares UML profiles to DSL's and is an interesting read.