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Cooking up a MEAL: Creating a Meta Enterprise Architecture Language

Enterprise architecture tools struggle to interoperate, and existing exchange standards like XMI are notoriously unreliable in practice. This paper proposes MEAL — a Meta Enterprise Architecture Language — a human-readable, domain-specific language designed to define, populate, query, and analyse EA models and repositories, and to serve as a high-level API between tools. It presents the requirements, a prototype implementation in Smalltalk, and example syntax demonstrating the concept's practical promise.