One of the popular advantages attributed to using domain-specificlanguages is that they're 'human-readable'. This label is highlymisleading because there is no such thing as a human readablecomputer language of any sort, DSL or otherwise.

Despite decades of AI research, we cannot instruct computers in naturallanguage; it is too slippery and imprecise. As a result, all languagesused to specify things to computers have specific semantics and arenot simply 'plain English'. Even if you try hard to use

A while back I wrote about how I monkey-patch modules for testing , but I didn't really write about why I preferto do my testing this way instead of, say, using dependency injection in the code I'mgoing to test.

My ultimate reason for doing it this way is that I would rather haveclean code and ugly tests than dirty code and cleaner tests. 'Testable'code that has everything it talks to injected into it as a parameteris generally ugly; specifically, it is