What kind of knowledge do you need to invent a new programming language?
- by systempuntoout
I just finished to read "Coders at works", a brilliant book by Peter Seibel with 15 interviews to some of the most interesting computer programmers alive today.
Well, many of the interviewees have (co)invented\implemented a new programming language.
Some examples:
Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang
L. Peter Deutsch: implementer of Smalltalk-80 …