There is an old (infoq? I think) presentation with Damian Conway where he calls it a new paradigm "grammar based programming" where you write a grammar parser o

There is an old (infoq? I think) presentation with Damian Conway where he calls it a new paradigm "grammar based programming" where you write a grammar parser object easily using the built-in functionality and then add a little code to get with it and BAM you're finished. I think this elegantly solves quite a few programming tasks of mine.