Is the DSL craze really new? Look at a lot of the early history of unix and you'll see sh, sed, awk, tex and probably a heap of others that didn't survive. Not

Is the DSL craze really new? Look at a lot of the early history of unix and you'll see sh, sed, awk, tex and probably a heap of others that didn't survive. Not to mentions lex/yacc, two DSL's to make DSLs. The idea of specialized languages for specialized tasks has been around for decades.