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		marcosdumay on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems with DSLs for non-programmers Notice that the GP didn't include managers at the groups he created DSLs for. And Visual Basic (or COBOL if you want to go back) are meant for what group exactly? It does not look specialized into any domain.

ptx on May 26, 2019 [–]

COBOL is specialized for business applications by supporting records (i.e. punch cards) and decimal numbers (as opposed to the binary floating point of FORTRAN).

Visual Basic is specialized for using COM (with a high-level interface to its features), I suppose - otherwise it's definitely general-purpose.

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