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In article <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:
>  Yes, isn't it interesting that two of the most popular general purpose
>languages for writing applications software were not designed to be used to
>write application software.  Has anyone written a general purpose language
>to do what I would think is the most common use of computer programming -
>to write application programs?  And if this/these exist, what are they and
>how do you rate them?  [just curious]


By general purpose, you mean to exclude SQL, APL, Yacc, Awk, etc., right?

When programmers invent new programming languages to write application
programs, the application programs they have in mind are usually those
they have done in the past and/or those they are doing at the time.  For
that reason, a really general purpose language has to be invented by
hundreds of programmers.  That means it has to evolve over a number of
years before it will be really general.  Thus C++ etc.