DSL Guild Hot Rods
- Lisp Dialect
Common Lisp
Synopsis
Because Lisp has such a simple syntax (everything is delimited with parentheses), it is easy to use it to build your own custom programming language, designed for a specific domain. Such domain-specific languages (DSLs) tend to make heavy use of the Lisp macro system. They represent an extreme form of macro programming, transforming Lisp into a completely new programming language.
Explanation
This is an example of code that uses a DSL to build an HTML page. In this case, the page displays “Hello World” in a browser, with the second word rendered in bold. The html and body commands (macros created for ...
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