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I have stricken the word "micro" and "language" from my vocabulary. Begone evil demons!! Haha :)

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On Apr 15, 2014, at 10:35 PM, "Renat Akhmerov" <rakhmerov at mirantis.com<mailto:rakhmerov at mirantis.com>> wrote:

On 16 Apr 2014, at 00:18, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at yahoo-inc.com<mailto:harlowja at yahoo-inc.com>> wrote:

Decider 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.

That’s fine. It doesn’t matter too much to me personally.

As far as the micro-language:

So there are typically 2 types of DSL's that occur, internal and external.

An internal DSL is like http://martinfowler.com/bliki/InternalDslStyle.html, 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

[1] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html

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.

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