> The sad fact is that the software industry as a whole relies heavily on mainstream languages, and not on educating your engineers to leverage the strengths of

> The sad fact is that the software industry as a whole relies heavily on mainstream languages, and not on educating your engineers to leverage the strengths of your specialty language. Except when the language is the workhorse of a proprietary product sold to your employer. SQL is the example that escaped into the open world, but see also MATLAB and Excel formulae/VBA.