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Scrambled Features for Breakfast: Concepts of Agile Language Development

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Walter Cazzola,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 66, Issue 11

Pages 50 - 60

https://doi.org/10.1145/3596217

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Describing a framework to support simpler development of languages best suited to express the problems and solutions of each particular domain.

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November 2023

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