In the proposed talk the following two open problems of software language engineering are discussed: (1) the process of designing a domain-specific software language and (2) the method of teaching domain-specific language design.

At DSLDI I would like to have a discussion around the Domain-Schema-Grammar-Actions model of DSL design, touch on related topics such as software language design and the approaches to teaching it, and consider the model’s viability as well as its alternatives.