Programming Language Design

How does one go about ProgrammingLanguageDesign? What are the trade-offs involved? Is there a process that one can follow?

PaulGraham is currently designing ArcLanguage (http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/arc.html) with comments and suggestions from the (general?) public. -- AdewaleOshineye

Walter Bright is doing something similar with DeeLanguage. -- JohnFletcher

FunctionalPatternSystemForObjectOrientedDesign has a section on the implications of functional patterns for language design.

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Web sites useful to those interested:

• LambdaTheUltimate -- a weblog dedicated to the topic. Many big names in the field participate there on a regular basis.
• http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/language-research.html. A quite useful "portal" page pointing to many others.

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CategoryProgrammingLanguage