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Why does it have to be a new programming language? Why not a library/framework for an existing language?

• mjburgess 4y ago
  As a general answer to that question, syntax is often under-valued. We didnt get whole fields of mathematics until a clear syntax was developed; and likewise, what patterns of thinking a syntax affords makes a big difference to the designs one chooses. The effect is bigger when writing not writing "glue code". The goal of threading data through libraries and applying simple business rules to it is a kind of problem best solved by existing mainstream syntaxes. That doesn't mean, as is often implicitly assumed, that therefore all syntax is basically equivalent.