I enjoy reading about new languages on HN. It’s weird because the grammar is weird. It’s like seeing start var ! oper addition sub var !! mltplctn var % close c

I enjoy reading about new languages on HN. It’s weird because the grammar is weird. It’s like seeing start var ! oper addition sub var !! mltplctn var % close close or something and eventually you realize it means a + b*c. Why invent a new language? Why not just write list<int> if you want a list of integers or write Channel<string> or one of the idioms that everyone knows? I don’t know, but it can be fun to play with communication and meaning and grammar, and maybe even more fun if you get to be part of a group that gets paid for it.