JuhaPekka Tolvanen MetaCase

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Juha-Pekka TolvanenMetaCase

• DSL panel
• position statement

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Background

• Work for MetaCase
• a company specialized on Domain-Specific Modeling
  environment MetaEdit
• Developed over 100 DSLs
• automotive, telecom, consumer products, medical,
  financial, industrial machines
• Author of Domain-Specific Modeling Enabling Full
  Code Generation, Wiley-IEEE, 2008
• Co-founder of OOPSLA workshops on Domain-Specific
  Modeling

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Benefits
The most significant is productivity increase!
Productivity proportional to earlier practice
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Limitations and obstacles

• Wrong techniques applied
• DSLs are made too broad
• Build DSLs based on a solution domain (code)
• Manually editing generated code
• Some tools are immature. No support for
• Iterative definition and use
• Language evolution with specifications already
  made
• Integration of multiple DSLs
• Using inefficient tools wastes time
• Man-years rather than man-days