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I have a current need to greatly increase my knowledge around DSLs. Who are the big names in DSLs? What blogs should I be reading?

+2  A: 

Martin Fowler is the first one that jumps to mind. He has links to other resources on his page, too.

Greg Hewgill
+1  A: 

Martin Fowler and Eric Evans for a start.

Jimmy Nilsson perhaps.

MikeW
+4  A: 

Martin Fowler is working on a book on DSLs. The work in progress is online. Ayende Rahien has completed a book on writing DSLs in Boo, which also is available online via Manning's early access program. The former is conceptual while the latter is a practical guide.

Tim Scott
+1 Do you know what Ayende uses as a domain for his DSL in the book? I have read the first chapter it seems really good. But still rough around the edges.
tyndall
+1  A: 

Paul Hudak is one of the people who worked on Haskell, and has written this paper about implementing embedded DSLs in Haskell.

flodin
+4  A: 

You can read a lot of interesting stuff about language design on the Lambda the Ultimate blog.

flodin
+1 I like that blog too.
tyndall
+2  A: 

I know that's an old question, but I enjoy reading eelco visser's blog

LB
+1  A: 

Ayende Rahien blogs about various things, including DSLs via Boo

Marc Gravell