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> Writing a spec is HARD.

Chances are that you're severely over-engineering it. Just take the English specification for any particular problem your DSL is supposed to solve and slightly tweak it into looking like a formal language. That's it. Extremely easy with a bit of practice.

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You have no idea.

Yes, tell me more. I build eDSLs professionally. You can take a look at some of the stuff I'm building: https://github.com/combinatorylogic

But where is the domain in your Domain Specific Languages? You built SLs but not DSLs.

In this case domain itself is language construction: I built a system of DSLs that make implementing any other DSLs easy. And I am using this and the other similar toolchains (like Racket) to build DSLs for a very wide range of domains.

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