This is rather deep, if you think about it. My gut feeling, coming from experience, is that the future lies with DSLs. A good programmer would mold the the gene

This is rather deep, if you think about it. My gut feeling, coming from experience, is that the future lies with DSLs. A good programmer would mold the the general-purpose language he works with into a DSL fitting the problem at hand anyway (using whatever means available, e.g. macros or generics or both). Incidentally, the modern Lisps and C++ look the best in this regard.