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		mamcx on Dec 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Slate Programming Language For fun, I want to build a language. After see you can do a lisp very easy, I stop and wonder for what my "new" language can be useful. This make me think in how do a REPL, a debugger, what kind of task this must solve naturally, etc, and for which kind of users! However, pull of a successfully language is very hard. That depress me. --- See more at https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/2ocw2r/how_to_creat...

briantrice on Dec 19, 2014 [–]

You'll never regret it, and although every language is ultimately worth criticizing, it's worth having a project of your own to refine or learn from.

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