I came across an article discussing research in building programming languages to speed up development of simulation programs. Here is the link. And here are some quotes from the article:
"They have created a language similar to the language of mathematics."
"... in the field of programming there is a classic problem linked to selection of the correct units used to describe physical quantities"
"Our new programming language is easy to use, it takes less time to write programmes, and the sources of error have been removed."
Reinventing the wheel comes to my mind.