Designing a Programming Language (2015)
I hope that at some point language design will become a self-contained discipline.<p>It reminds me of back in the early days of the Internet when developers were the only web designers. Most programming languages are designed by the same people implementing them.<p>The common critique is that language designers might create a syntax incompatible with the limitations of the computer itself, but that’s the same challenge web designers had to learn in designing something that will look great in the constraints of the browser, and not just look good in Photoshop.