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The Dutch Tax Administration have been using controlled natural language for the specification of their legislation for some time now with JetBrains MPS (external) DSLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfABlzO2Wc&index=2&t=0s&lis...

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Tangential note, it’s exciting to see someone using MPS. It’s an interesting and possibly transformative software technology that seems ahead of its time.

Sounds very similar to https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/

(though I never used MPS)

Yes, MPS and Xtext are the best language workbenches in the market. The main difference is that MPS uses a Projectional editor, so you can use different notation (not only text): https://youtu.be/XGm_khXZl44

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