<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> A famous Lisp programmer once said (in the context of functional programming): "For alumni of other languages, beginning to use Lisp may be like stepping onto a skating rink for the first time. It’s actually much easier to get around on ice than it is on dry land—if you use skates. Till then you will be left wondering what people see in this sport." A DSL could be seen as an ice skate, or even an airplane.  Airplanes require expensive maintenance, expensive fuel, training to fly, etc, yet they make the fastest, safest, longest-range mass transit system on Earth.  If the article's author's argument is that airplanes aren't worth the complexity... As a simple example, consider the language "Brainfuck".  It would be wise to write a DSL with it called "Scheme", where the domain is actual programming.  The user would be far more productive. </body> </html>