I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
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If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.