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SQL is a good one. Fortran is another. ASIC's, GPU's. When generic is not good enough, we create specific solutions.

Javascript is itself an example: it solves very well the problem of giving web pages interactivity. It was not designed to be a general purpose language though - it was, and is - being worked around into one.




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