Obviously these are sweeping statements, but the problem with this generalization is that successful DSLs become invisible because we take them for granted. Regular expressions are a DSL. SQL is a DSL. LaTeX is a DSL. The Wikipedia page on domain-specific languages even lists HTML as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language#Examp...

With regard to LaTeX or HTML, you could even argue that their goals could be better accomplished with some sort of graphical interface, which sounds a lot like… visual programming!