<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div apple-content-edited="true"><div>On 16 Apr 2014, at 00:18, Joshua Harlow <<a href="mailto:harlowja@yahoo-inc.com">harlowja@yahoo-inc.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><i>Decider</i> sounds like it could work also as a name, although it seems from dataflow like work its called a switch or gate, either or I guess.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That’s fine. It doesn’t matter too much to me personally.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>
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<div>As far as the micro-language:</div>
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<div>So there are typically 2 types of DSL's that occur, internal and external.</div>
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<div>An internal DSL is like <a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/InternalDslStyle.html">http://martinfowler.com/bliki/InternalDslStyle.html</a>, taskflow is already a micro-DSL internal to python (mistral is an external DSL[1]). To me there is a drawback
of becoming to much of a DSL (internal or external) in that it requires a lot of new learning (imho internal DSLs are easier to pick-up since they take advantage of the surrounding languages capabilities, in this case python). So that’s what I just want to
keep in our minds that we need to make it simple *enough*, or we will die a nasty death of complexity :-P</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html">http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok, got it. Thanks. I’m just still not sure why you emphasize on that micro-language thing. IMO terms like that can scary people :) In fact, this ‘switch’ (or decider, or whatever) is just an additional API which can be used to alter flow behavior. </div><div><br></div></div></body></html>