No post sobre Escreva sua própria DSL eu falei sobre os benefícios em criar uma linguagem que seja útil para facilitar o desenvolvimento de sistemas dentro do contexto de negócio que você está situado. Queria levar essa ideia um passo além e incluir APIs e como o conceito de "crie sua própria linguagem" faz parte do dia-a-dia de qualqu...

Continuing on Flexible Software, if you want to tackle difficult problems in your domain in an easy way - write your own language. Writing your own language is a very bold statement and many of us can be caught by surprise when I say that we are creating our own little language every day at work. The real mystery here is more about the...

I was preparing a series of essays about Computational Model that addresses some points described in Role of Software when I found We Really Don't Know How to Compute from Gerald Sussman that triggered a whole new research branch for me. Sussman is intrigued by how bad we build our systems today, basically when every problem to be solv...

Today Hey.com launched a new feature, now I have a personal blog space directly from my e-mail account. Let's give it a try. These are my thoughts on a subject that I have been thinking about for some years: The Role of Software Businesses have real challenging requirements and most of the difficulty is not tied up with the actual impl...