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by bvrmn 1302 days ago
It seems DSL proponents grow from environment without rich standard library.

And classic Knuth argument, of course. It's so hard to count words. General purpose language:

    >>> from collections import Counter 
    >>> import re
    >>> Counter(re.findall('\w+', 'boo foo  boo +dfd zii')).most_common(1)
    [('boo', 2)]