[rswail]

It's similar to the discussions around COBOL back in the day. What's interesting is that the primary "end user" language is Excel formulas. Who would have thought a declaratory relational language with matrices would "win" that battle.

Any arguments that "users will write their own" languages are basically flawed. Users want results, if there's no alternative, they'll do it themselves, in the simplest, but probably most inefficient way possible.