People Do Not Want to Learn a New Language But a New Library (Keynote)
One day, a student raised a question. I spent many years to learn a programming language. Why do you try to develop yet another language? I don’t wanna learn no more language. One is enough! My answer was, well, don’t you hate to learn a new library, either? People seem to accept learning a new library as necessary work although they might not be happy to learn a new language (they might not be very happy to learn a new library, either, but they seem much happier). However, a modern library is something we should consider as a programming language. During this talk, I will survey technology around language-like libraries, which are often called embedded domain specific languages. Then I will present my vision of where we, programming-language researchers, should go for further study.