This is mostly orthogonal to the article's point, but the motivating example ignores the actual syntax that already exists in C++(11) to initialize classes:

This is mostly orthogonal to the article's point, but the motivating example ignores the actual syntax that already exists in C++(11) to initialize classes: std::map<std::string, int> m1 = { {"one", 1}, {"two", 2}, {"three", 3} }; It may be relevant to mention IntelLib [1] here, which is one of many (ab)uses of C++ to enact DSLs. [1] http://www.intelib.org/intro.html http://www.intelib.org/intro.html