alt Hacker Newsall languages are embedded in some domain, therefore having a domain does not make a language "a specific type of language"
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cestith • today at 2:42 PM
Many languages are in fact designed and publicized as general-purpose programming languages.
People have settled on the term DSL to identify those languages whose domains are highly constrained as compared to more general purpose or broad domain languages. This usage exists whether or not you think the term itself is stupid.