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OOP is based, partly, around the idea of 'mini algebras' (roughly speaking, public interfaces), which are domain-specific languages ( http://xahlee.info/comp/Alan_Kay_on_object_oriented_programi... )

Functional programming, especially Haskell, tends to use the term 'embedded domain-specific language' ( http://wiki.c2.com/?EmbeddedDomainSpecificLanguage )

Lisps tend to call them DSLs or sometimes "mini languages"

Forth calls them "vocabularies"

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I thought Lisps called them "dialects" (same as in Rebol / Red).

Couple of other terms i've seen...

* Pidgin - An attempt to get away from DSL ambiguity!

* Slang - This is what Perl6 calls them

> I thought Lisps called them "dialects"

(Lisp) "dialect" seems to refer to a particular implementation/variant of Lisp, e.g. CommonLisp, Scheme, Racket, Clojure, MacLisp, NewLisp, etc. rather than a domain-specific language built in a Lisp.

(e.g. searching for "lisp dialect" gives pages like https://www.slant.co/topics/5928/~lisp-dialects )

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