Yet, in the same way that a spreadsheet is not a database, is not a data-acquisition tool, is not an application programming language: people have used email fo

Yet, in the same way that a spreadsheet is not a database, is not a data-acquisition tool, is not an application programming language: people have used email for all these purposes and not been completely unsuccessful. That's why general tools are awesome: you can do things with them that the originators didn't dream would be possible -- or desirable.