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I think we're talking past each other. You may notice that I haven't condemned DSL in general. I condemn coming up with a DSL when using GP-Language would suffice as the easier solution.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but I have seen many awk scripts, elaborate sed-constructs (I refuse to call them scripts) and jq expressions, that would have been a lot simpler, easier to understand, and easier to maintain, if someone had just sat down and rewrote them in Python, or even in Go. They have their uses, but when people start developing what can be called a small application in a DSL that happens to be turing complete, they should just use a real programming language.

The same goes for many of Makefiles btw., some of which resemble an exceprt from the Necronomicon more than they do build instructions.

And btw. "survivorship bias" doesn't fit what's happening here at all, because the only reason we still use sed, or awk, is that they proved useful for a long time, where many other DSL did not.