Language-Oriented Programming

Kind: approach

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: architecture:language-oriented-programming

Severity: contextual

Scope: domain, platform, code generation

Canonical: Ontology

An approach in which each problem domain gets its own language, with a type checker and an evaluator, and solutions are written in it.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and before Model-Driven Architecture.

Requires

• DSLs
• Code Generation or Interpreters

Reinforces

• Domain Modeling

Enables

• High-Level Domain Expression

In tension with

• Toolchain Complexity
• One-Size General-Purpose Code

Tensions

• Language-Oriented Programming / Toolchain Complexity
• Language-Oriented Programming / One-Size General-Purpose Code

Violated by

• Ad-Hoc Mini-Language

Refactored by

• Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
• Automated Enforcement

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

Linked from

• Core Vocabulary
• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• Severity levels
• The resolutions