intentional-programming

What exactly is Intentional Programming

On my reading spree, I stumbled upon something called Intentional Programming. I understood it somewhat, but I not fully. If anyone can explain it in better detail, please do. Is it being used in any real application? ...

What's useful from Intentional and Language Oriented Programming?

Has anything useful come out of Intentional or "Language Oriented" Programming? This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm looking for people who've tried these tools (ie. representing programs in some "higher level" format than mere text and using different editors for different domain specific subsets) and have some comments about how it w...

Is Antlr a DSL generator and an alternative to Intentional Programming?

I am struck by the ambition and creativity of Charles Simonyi's efforts to establish the field of Intentional Programming, first at Microsoft and then with his own company. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201386/what-exactly-is-intentional-programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming In this approach to softw...

Recommendation for a book on "expressive" PL/SQL?

Let me be clear - I have more than enough "references" and "for beginners" books. What I want is something like "Exceptional PL/SQL" or "Agile PL/SQL" or "PL/SQL Design Patterns" or even just "PL/SQL For Developers Who Want To Write Pretty Code". Does such a thing exist? (I'm a C++/Ruby/etc. developer. I've been thrown into an Oracle ...