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It is usually a "colossal error" to write your own in-house closed-source/proprietary language, no matter how small or large the language is.

Really?

I don't think so, having done this once, to the great success of the company. They also wrote their own database. The compiler was maintained by a team long after I left the company.

Software is hard. There are more interesting, and hard, problems than pushing the value of a field from one subsystem to the other.



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