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Re:Imba: A new programming language for web apps by kriro on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:04AM (#10901766)
Because building something is fun and building a programming language is a lot of fun.
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Re:Imba: A new programming language for web apps by PeCaN on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:53AM (#10902560)
Building programming languages just for the heck of it is highly underrated, I think every programmer should at least try implementing a few languages of different paradigms.

Implementing a stack-based language made me write more readable point-free Haskell. Implementing a text-processing-oriented language taught me a ton about Unicode and Korean. Both are fun to work on.

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