Is it not a rite of passage to design & implement your own language, distilling your two years of knowledge and arrogance into one pathetic failure of a design?

Is it not a rite of passage to design & implement your own language, distilling your two years of knowledge and arrogance into one pathetic failure of a design? And from then on appreciating some sense of the difficulty of constructing and maintaining such things? Perhaps not always languages, but such experiences are vital to our industry!