Everything about Domain-specific language

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Domain-specific languageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A domain generalization network combing invariance and specificity towards real-time intelligent fault diagnosisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Mapping the mindThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A domain‐specific risk‐attitude scale: measuring risk perceptions and risk behaviorsCited 2,245 times
5. Go sideways: Language workbenchA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: JetBrains MPSA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A domain‐specific risk‐attitude scale: measuring risk perceptions and risk behaviors

  Elke U. Weber, Ann‐Renée Blais, Nancy E. Betz · 2002 · Journal of Behavioral Decision Making · 2,245 citations

• Activation of p53 Sequence-Specific DNA Binding by Acetylation of the p53 C-Terminal Domain

  Wei Gu, Robert G Roeder · 1997 · Cell · 2,165 citations

• Domain specificity in face perception

  Nancy Kanwisher · 2000 · Nature Neuroscience · 706 citations

• Domain Specificity in Visual Cortex

  P. E. Downing, A. W.-Y. Chan, M. V. Peelen · 2005 · Cerebral Cortex · 455 citations

• A Specificity Map for the PDZ Domain Family

  Raffi Tonikian, Yingnan Zhang, Stephen L Sazinsky · 2008 · PLoS Biology · 455 citations

• The Case for Domain Specificity of Creativity

  John Baer · 1998 · Creativity Research Journal · 387 citations

• Domain Specificity in Experimental Measures and Participant Recruitment

  Yaniv Hanoch, Joseph G. Johnson, Andreas Wilke · 2006 · Psychological Science · 273 citations

• The Domain Specificity of Academic Emotional Experiences

  Thomas Goetz, Anne C. Frenzel, Reinhard Pekrun · 2006 · The Journal of Experimental Education · 191 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A domain generalization network combing invariance and specificity towards real-time intelligent fault diagnosis

  Chao Zhao, Weiming Shen · 2022 · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing · 204 citations

• Contrast-Assisted Domain-Specificity-Removal Network for Semi-Supervised Generalization Fault Diagnosis

  Qiuyu Song, Xingxing Jiang, Jie Liu · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 61 citations

• Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music

  Manvir Singh, Samuel A. Mehr · 2023 · Nature Reviews Psychology · 41 citations

• Pronounced sequence specificity of the TET enzyme catalytic domain guides its cellular function

  Mirunalini Ravichandran, Dominik Rafalski, Claudia I. Davies · 2022 · Science Advances · 39 citations

• Kinase domain autophosphorylation rewires the activity and substrate specificity of CK1 enzymes

  Sierra N. Cullati, Apirat Chaikuad, Jun-Song Chen · 2022 · Molecular Cell · 38 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Mapping the mindLawrence A. Hirschfeld, Susan A. Gelman · 1994
• Domain EngineeringIris Reinhartz-Berger, Arnon Sturm · 2013
• Implementing Domaindriven DesignVaughn Vernon · 2012
• 📕Semantics engineering with PLT RedexMatthias Felleisen · 2009
• 📕Autism and cognitive architectureMiklós Győri · 2006
• DSLs in actionDebasish Ghosh · 2010
• 📕Clojure for Domain-Specific LanguagesRyan D. Kelker · 2013
• Gradle in ActionBenjamin Muschko · 2014

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