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I did design a language and it is still being used. I did it as part of my job at that time. It started as a simple query language inside the application we we

I did design a language and it is still being used. I did it as part of my job at that time. It started as a simple query language inside the application we were developing. One by one features were added. Some colleague also decided to used it program certain functionality of the application, which caused more and more people to use it. I implemented it with a parser that I developed myself. So, actually, I fell in the trap of developing a language myself, not a programming language, but a developing my own language developing tools. And I have doing it for more than 20 years now, on and off. I do recognize the self promoting bit. (I am kind of doing it right now.)

extheat 5y ago
I think that a big tenant of any modern language should be interoperability, such that you can easily import/export code from another popular language. That not only clears up the issue around libraries, but also makes it a safer bet for usage by people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to use a niche language
fjfaase 5y ago
The language I am refering to, is now called the BiZZdesign scripting language. See: https://support.bizzdesign.com/display/knowledge/BiZZdesign+Scripting+Reference https://support.bizzdesign.com/display/knowledge/BiZZdesign+... The pipe operators are from the original design of the query language. Variables, function, and many other language constructs have been added later.