Oh my goodness do I ever agree about any kind of “use parser cleverness to make your cute interior domain specific language” thing as found in Scala and Ruby an

Oh my goodness do I ever agree about any kind of “use parser cleverness to make your cute interior domain specific language” thing as found in Scala and Ruby and a few other contexts. If you want a language, and have legit need, fire up antlr and build a quick compiler. Parser cleverness if the “internal DSl” variety is on par with the C++ windowing libraries that used heavy operator overloading to be clever, the stuff like “window += new Button()” and other nonsense. Just awful and torturous.