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Monthly Archives: November 2004

Language Oriented Programming with MPS

JetBrains now have an own mag named onBoard. One of the first articles is about Language Oriented Programming (short: LOP) and about MPS (Meta Programming System), which is or will be a development environment for LOP integrated into IDEA. The ideas behind LOP sound strange and fantastic at the same time: You develop some languages [...]

Why Names Matter

When I was beginning to develop Squareness more than a year ago, I also began to search for a name. I knew I would release it someday. So it was clear it needed some name. After some thoughts I came up with “Square”, but a search on Wincustomize.com showed that there was already a skin [...]