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Goals
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EB is a discrete event simulation language. It exists to demonstrate the
usefulness of "event segment" theory -- a concept that we hope is useful to
creators of discrete event simulators. The concept unifies periodic, iterative,
event-driven and agent-driven models by providing the minimal computation unit
required and a means to map each into the scheme.



Side benefit of the research
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This document (*Building a DSL with Claude*) is one early result.

This work is useful to engineers and scientists who would benefit from having a
domain specific language (DSL) but have no experience building programming languages.
They would benefit from a DSL tailored to their domain—if only creating one
weren't so difficult.

These users need more than one-off LLM prompting. Ad-hoc requests produce
inconsistent results — **the LLM reinvents the wheel each time**. A DSL provides
structure:

- A defined language that the LLM can learn deeply
- Documentation the LLM can reference for accurate assistance
- Consistent patterns for debugging and generating first drafts

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