Saturday, November 07, 2009

Programming, Modeling, DSLs and Language Workbenches

More and more I am getting to the point where I think that there should be no difference between modeling and programing. What we really want is to program ... at different levels of abstaction ... from different viewpoints ... all viewpoints integrated ... … with different degrees of domain-specificity ... with suitable notations ... with suitable level of expressiveness ... and always precise and tool processable.

I am talking about this idea quite a bit. Some slides towards this point are at slideshare and as PDFs on my website.

I will blog about some of the thoughts from these slides in the next couple of weeks.

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Comments:

I totally agree. I once tried to start a software design course (grads + advanced undergrads) with a rundown of definitions of modeling, design, programming, architecting, etc.

I didn't take me long to realize the differences are subtle. Fundamentally all these activities revolve around the same set of skills and the same set of decisions.

Also, "debugging", "adding functionality", "maintenance" are also roughly the same.

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