Steve Cook on DSLs, MDA, and Software Factories

March 22, 2005

There’s an interesting interview with Microsoft’s Steve Cook up on DJNOnline. Too bad the industry is wasting so much effort on a totally pointless flame war again — as if one time wasn’t enough.

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I was trying not to make it a flame war. I think there are some valid distinctions to be made, and I was attempting to make them.

BTW when I did the personality test, I came out as Albert Einstein.

Posted by: Steve Cook at March 23, 2005 1:32 PM | link

I’m sorry Steve, I didn’t mean to imply you did. At least not here :-)

I’m pro-MDA in the sense of being a fan of automating tedious tasks, enabling developers to tweak their tool set to meet their needs, express themselves in the language most suitable for the task … all of which are, IMO, common characteristics of MDA, the Software Factory approach, and good old Lisp macros.

Posted by: Stefan Tilkov at March 23, 2005 2:57 PM | link