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I'd argue yes.

Microsoft Word is a domain specific language for formatting documents. Just because you can't create an OS with it doesn't mean you aren't telling a computer what to do using gestures and keystrokes that you had to learn first.

Every day user tasks are just very high level programming, with limited power compared to general purpose languages.



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