Rosenan, Boaz. Designing language-oriented programming languages. In SPLASH '10: Proceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2010. [doi]
Today, language-oriented programming (LOP) is realized by using either language workbenches or internal DSLs, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. In this work, we design a host language for DSLs with language workbench features, thereby combining the two approaches and enjoying the best of both worlds.