A comparison of tool support for textual domain-specific languages”, UAP Printing Solutions

A domain-specific language is a specialized and problem-oriented language. Successful application of a DSL largely depends on provided tools, so called language workbenches that support end-programmers creating, editing, and maintaining programs written in a DSL. In this paper, we describe four different tools support-ing the creating of language workbenches, identify commonalities and differences and compare these tools by means of a set of cri-teria. 1. Introdcution Domain-specific languages (DSL) are languages tailored to a specific application domain [1]. They have the potential to reduce complexity of software development by raising the abstraction level towards an application domain. According to the application domain, different notations (textual, graphical, tabular) are used