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'''Language-oriented programming''' ('''LOP''')<ref name="lop">{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Martin |title=Language Oriented Programming |journal=Software - Concepts and Tools |date=1994 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=147-161 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4302-2390-0_12 |url=http://www.gkc.org.uk/martin/papers/middle-out-t.pdf |accessdate=15 May 2019}}</ref> is a software-development paradigm where "language" is a software building block with the same status as objects, modules and components<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Felleisen |first1=Matthias |last2=Findler |first2=Robert Bruce |last3=Flatt |first3=Matthew |last4=Krishnamurthi |first4=Shriram |last5=Barzilay |first5=Eli |last6=McCarthy |first6=Jay |last7=Tobin-Hochstadt |first7=Sam |title=A Programmable Programming Language |journal=Communications of the ACM |date=March 2018 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=62-71 |doi=10.1145/3127323 |url=https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/3/225475-a-programmable-programming-language/fulltext |accessdate=15 May 2019}}</ref>, and rather than solving problems in [[general-purpose programming language]]s, the programmer creates one or more [[___domain-specific language]]s for the problem first, and solves the problem in those languages. Language-oriented programming was first described in detail in Martin Ward's 1994 paper ''Language Oriented Programming''<ref name="lop" />, published in ''Software - Concepts and Tools'', Vol.15, No.4, pp 147-161, 1994.

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'''Language-oriented programming''' ('''LOP''')<ref name="lop">{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Martin |title=Language Oriented Programming |journal=Software - Concepts and Tools |date=1994 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=147-161 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4302-2390-0_12 |urlisbn=http://www.gkc.org.uk/martin/papers/middle978-out1-t.pdf4302-2389-4 |accessdatepages=15327–349 May| place= Berkeley | publisher=Apress | date=2010}} 2019}}</ref> is a software-development paradigm where "language" is a software building block with the same status as objects, modules and components,<ref name=Felleisen2018>{{cite journal |last1=Felleisen |first1=Matthias |last2=Findler |first2=Robert Bruce |last3=Flatt |first3=Matthew |last4=Krishnamurthi |first4=Shriram |last5=Barzilay |first5=Eli |last6=McCarthy |first6=Jay |last7=Tobin-Hochstadt |first7=Sam |title=A Programmable Programming Language |journal=Communications of the ACM |date=March 2018 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=62-7162–71 |doi=10.1145/3127323 |s2cid=3887010 |url=https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/3/225475-a-programmable-programming-language/fulltext |accessdateaccess-date=15 May 2019|url-access=subscription }}</ref>, and rather than solving problems in [[general-purpose programming language]]s, the programmer creates one or more [[___domain-specific language]]s (DSLs) for the problem first, and solves the problem in those languages. Language-oriented programming was first described in detail in Martin Ward's 1994 paper ''Language Oriented Programming''.<ref name="lop" />, published in ''Software - Concepts and Tools'', Vol.15, No.4, pp 147-161, 1994.

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==Development==

AThe [[Racket programming language]] and [[RascalMPL]] were designed to support language-oriented programming from the ground up.<ref name=Felleisen2018 /> Other [[language workbench]]<ref name="killerapp">{{cite web |url= http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html |title=Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages? |last1=Fowler |first1=Martin |date=12 June 2005 |access-date=14 April 2015}}</ref> tools such as [[JetBrains MPS]], [[Kermeta]], [[Racket (programming language)|Racket]] or [[Xtext]] providesprovide the tools to design and implement DSLs and language-oriented programming.<ref name=Erdweg>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/21863 |chapter=The State of the Art in Language Workbenches |last1=Erdweg |first1=Sebastian |title=Software Language Engineering |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |date=2013 |volume=8225 |pages=197–217 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-02654-1_11 |isbn=978-3-319-02653-4 |s2cid=5234848 |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref>

==See also==

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* [[Domain-specific language]]

* [[Extensible programming]]

* [[Intentional programming]]

* [[Homoiconicity]]

==References==

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==External links==

* [http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/articles/04/10/lop/ Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm] Sergey Dmitriev's paper that further explored the topic.

* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-02654-1_11 The State of the Art in Language Workbenches. Conclusions from the Language Workbench Challenge.] In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE'13). 2013.

*[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322499807_Language_Oriented_Programming_in_Meta-Lisp Language Oriented Programming in MetaLisp] Gyuri Lajos's [https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002968069705181&context=L&vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&lang=en&search_scope=My_Inst_CI_not_ebsco&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=AlmostEverything&query=any,contains,language%20oriented%20programming&facet=rtype,include,dissertations thesis 1992 University of Leeds] The system used the very same Top Down Parsing Language algorithm that powered [[TREE-META|Tree-Meta]]

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