In the big picture, evolution of PLs has been reachiny for higher levels of abstraction. People used to program everyday business apps in arduous things like a

In the big picture, evolution of PLs has been reachiny for higher levels of abstraction. People used to program everyday business apps in arduous things like assembly language, C++, etc. But the search has been staggering in various directions and taken missteps half the time due to historical accidents and corporate games. Look at eg the current primitive and fragmented state of GPU languages for a glaring example.