LinuxWorld.com: What is your advice to designers of new programming languages? Dennis Ritchie: At least for the people who send me mail about a new languag

LinuxWorld.com: What is your advice to designers of new programming languages? Dennis Ritchie: 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. Don't have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless you hook up with some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. It's a lottery, and some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of beautiful languages (more beautiful than C) that didn't catch on. But someone does win the lottery, and doing a language at least teaches you something. Oh, by the way, if your new language does begin to grow in usage, it can become really hard to fix early mistakes.[0] [0] http://www.itworld.com/article/2826125/development/the-future-according-to-dennis-ritchie--a-2000-interview-.html?page=2 http://www.itworld.com/article/2826125/development/the-futur...