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Re:Ask HN: Lisp users, how powerful is metalinguistic progra... by simon_acca on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:02PM (#29180733)
A good perspective on this is to just think of the programmers as another “component” of your system that you have to design an API towards, just like a DB or a device. DSLs and Metalinguistic capabilities in general are fantastic for this one very specific task, but for this task only. For everything else, data is a much better abstraction than a DSL, because it’s a pain to get computers to work with DSLs. For an example of where this has gone wrong, look no further than where we are at with SQL.

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