You don't have to intrude new syntax to create an embedded DSL, that's the whole point of an embedded DSL, it uses the languages existing syntax. Smalltalk and

You don't have to intrude new syntax to create an embedded DSL, that's the whole point of an embedded DSL, it uses the languages existing syntax. Smalltalk and Lisp are full of DSL's, as is Ruby, of the three only Lisp has the ability for syntactic abstraction, every Smalltalk DSL uses native syntax. See Seaside's DSL for html generation or Glorp's for database mappings.