Languages

It’s that time of year again — time for a retrospective on how I did on my goals for the year. I had 5 main goals for 2015: Job Hunting Conferences Blogging Programming Language Design Writing an Agile Book Job Hunting I got pretty lucky on this one. My main contract with Mercy got extended several times. Amos and I must have been doing a good job of keeping the customer happy. We even made it through a couple rounds of layoffs. I’m wrapping up the gig at Mercy now. I’m working one day a week there, as the project winds down. ...

I’ve decided to design and implement my own programming language, and call it Brilliant. I’ve been interested in programming languages and linguistics almost as long as I’ve been using computers. I’ve long thought that if I ever go back to college, it’s likely that I’ll concentrate on programming languages as a specialty. My recent discovery and involvement with the Crystal programming language has gotten me excited about new language ideas. It’s also helped me realize that implementing a language myself is feasible, and that there’s no better time to start than now. ...