So You Want To Write Your Own Language? by Walter Bright.
From the post:
The naked truth about the joys, frustrations, and hard work of writing your own programming language
My career has been all about designing programming languages and writing compilers for them. This has been a great joy and source of satisfaction to me, and perhaps I can offer some observations about what you’re in for if you decide to design and implement a professional programming language. This is actually a book-length topic, so I’ll just hit on a few highlights here and avoid topics well covered elsewhere.
In case you are wondering if Walter is a good source for language writing advice, I pulled this bio from the Dr. Dobb’s site:
Walter Bright is a computer programmer known for being the designer of the D programming language. He was also the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec C++, now Digital Mars C++). Before the C++ compiler he developed the Datalight C compiler, also sold as Zorland C and later Zortech C.
I am sure writing a language is an enormous amount of work but Water makes it sound quite attractive.
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