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Project Emerald: Designing A Language To Be Fun, Addison Bostian Apr 2018

Project Emerald: Designing A Language To Be Fun, Addison Bostian

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For a computer language to be fun, it needs to be flexible, powerful, and easy to use. Emerald is a compromise between all of these features.

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Project Emerald: Designing A Language To Be Fun, Addison Bostian Jan 2018

Project Emerald: Designing A Language To Be Fun, Addison Bostian

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I designed the language described here to be, first and foremost, fun. I wanted it to be a programmer's go-to language, the language that you pick up for personal projects or utilities. I felt the way to make this happen was to make it fun to write in. In order to accomplish this, the language derives from several existing languages, taking what I believed were the best parts of each of them. Combining principles from multiple languages sounds like a good idea, I quickly ran into problems that would make developing a compiler extremely difficult, if not impossible. Because of …

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