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      • onlinepersonaEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Lua fall into that category too. It can be embedded to allow writing plugins or extensions.

          • onlinepersonaEnglish
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            1 year ago

            LUA is a programming language. Being embeddable doesn’t stop something from being a DSL. It’s not an attribute that should factor in the distinction between DSL and general purpose programming language.

            • nikaro@jlai.luOP
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              1 year ago

              Ok i think i get the point. A “generic programming language” could be used as a “domain specific language” in some context. Is that what you mean?