Domain Specific Programming Language Classification

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language:

In software development and domain engineering, a domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language or specification language dedicated to a particular problem domain… The opposite is a general-purpose language, such as C, Java or Python…

Related to my post on emergent programming languages, here’s my first proposal for taxonomy for the domain classifications:

• According to customer requirements
  • Business Domain (E.g. insurance, banking, sales)
  • situated applications
• Programmers
  • According to age (e.g. languages for kids)
  • According to experience (e.g. beginner’s languages)
  • collaborative programming
• Programming paradigms
  • Imperative
  • Functional (e.g. Haskell)
  • Meta-Programming (e.g. Rascal)
  • … (see Wikipedia)
• Classify according to Output
  • For websites (e.g. HTML output)
  • For diagrams
  • For texts (e.g. regular expressions)
  • Code generation (e.g. Compiler generators, metacompilers)
  • Game developing
  • Natural language generation
• Manipulating Objects / Input
  • Text manipulation (e.g. regular expressions)
  • File manipulation (e.g. shell scripting)
  • Media manipulation (pictures, videos, sound)
  • Natural language processing
  • Relational database querying
  • Mapping Reality
    • Business rules engines
    • Simulation tools
    • Artificial intelligence
• Support Software Development Process
  • Code checking (e.g. profilers, consistency checker)
  • Documentation
  • Tools for build and deployment
  • Versioning and archiving code
  • Support management processes
  • Rapid software prototyping
  • Support for design patterns
• Special Hardware Target
  • Microcode
  • Assembler
  • Programmable controller (PLC/SPS)