Answer:
Some languages used for DSLs include:
- Web: HTML
- Shell: sh, Bash, CSH, and the likes for *nix; MS-DOS, Windows Terminal, PowerShell for Windows
- Markup languages: XML
- Modeling: UML
- Data management: SQL and its variants
- Business rules: Drools
- Hardware: Verilog, VHD
- Build tools: Maven, Gradle
- Numerical computation and simulation: MATLAB (commercial), GNU Octave, Scilab
- Various types of parsers and generators: Lex, YACC, GNU Bison, ANTLR
DSLs are used for a specific context in a particular domain.
A domain-specific language (DSL) is a language meant for use in the context of a particular domain. A domain could be a business context (e.g., banking, insurance, etc.) or an application context (e.g., a web application, database, etc.) In contrast, a general-purpose language (GPL) can be used for a wide range of business problems and applications.
Step-by-step explanation:
A domain-specific language is created specifically to solve problems in a particular domain and is not intended to be able to solve problems outside of it (although that may be technically possible). In contrast, general-purpose languages are created to solve problems in many domains. The domain can also be a business area. Some examples of business areas include:
- life insurance policies (developed internally by a large insurance enterprise)
- combat simulation
- salary calculation
- billing
A domain-specific language is somewhere between a tiny programming language and a scripting language, and is often used in a way analogous to a programming library. The boundaries between these concepts are quite blurry, much like the boundary between scripting languages and general-purpose languages.