Eng?

As some of you may know, I've been considering the design of a new programming language lately. (And for those who haven't yet heard me talking about it, I will... at great lengths... whether you want me to or not.) This has been one of the things which has kept me busy and away from blogging of late. I'm not sure how much I should ramble on about it here though.

In working through my thoughts on the language, I'm writing an essay in three parts which mainly aims to justify why I'm doing this. (Before the abundance of circumlocutions becomes overwhelming, let us call this new language "Eng".) The first part is basically a laundry list of little features or attributes that Eng — or any language — would need to thrive against the current competitors. The second covers what I deem the fundamental Laws of Language Design, and these perhaps are the crux of the piece; certainly they are the part of the essay which is most liable to be useful outside of organizing my thoughts on Eng. And the third section of the essay is intended to introduce some ideas I have which would make this new language special. But there's a problem.

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