To be honest, I’ve never seen an organisation go all the way around the clock, but I’ve seen plenty that have got to 5, 6, or 7 and feel considerable pain
In my (very) brief experience with enterprise Java, a very long time ago, I saw one go around the clock and make its way toward a second round: a DSL which started growing another DSL inside it. Of course, being Java, the DSL processors themselves were also overengineered excesses and had their own configuration and configuration-configuration... I didn't stay around long enough to see what eventually became of that system, but I have a feeling it's still in active use.
We've got one that went around the clock. A DSL was created for support, but the DSL is more of a UI that builds expression trees. Of course support don't understand expression trees so the developers write c# (what the DSL "compiles" to), the c# is inserted into the database and the compiled on the fly.
In my (very) brief experience with enterprise Java, a very long time ago, I saw one go around the clock and make its way toward a second round: a DSL which started growing another DSL inside it. Of course, being Java, the DSL processors themselves were also overengineered excesses and had their own configuration and configuration-configuration... I didn't stay around long enough to see what eventually became of that system, but I have a feeling it's still in active use.