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However, a concise, expressive, very high-level domain-specific language can make it impossible to express many idioms that would break the semantics of the domain.

As an analogy (I hesitate to use one because of the article), you could have a high-level representation of HTML that would make it totally impossible to generate <HTML></NOTHTML>, which is not the case if you use a general-purpose system. (not a foolproof analogy but anyway)




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