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by stkni 3903 days ago
Yes, this seems right. In the 1970s I imagine all these different languages were essentially good for a specific purpose and for some time it's been cross-breeding and evolving into a general purpose language.

This touches pretty close on PG's idea of the 100 year language [1], which is worth re-reading so thought I'd mention.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html