At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
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I started out with machine code and assembly language.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
I'm pretty good with languages.
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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