2015-02-05-little-language-design-workshop.md

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Little Language Design Workshop	Workshop in which we prototype new syntax for a new language.	2015-02-05 11:15:00 -0800	http://lanyrd.com/2015/little-language-design-workshop	name link James Hugman https://twitter.com/jhugman		url title link https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1418/1466621134_afb2c63e03_z_d.jpg Happy Translator's Day! https://www.flickr.com/photos/frozen-in-time/	javascript languages theory workshop	name link location address latlong 68 Middle St https://web.archive.org/web/20200124043717/http://68middle.st/ http://goo.gl/maps/dxEiT Brighton, BN1 50.82116,-0.143144	event.hbs	events

A programming language and its tools shape the way we solve a given problem. Things trivially easy in one language can be a thicket of awful in another. Some languages need lots of boiler plate, some do not.

Growing a language: adding, removing and changing features is often difficult. The problems require not just computer science, but also aesthetics and taste.

My current side-project is a small mathematical programming language, called Turo.

It is an interesting project, and it is now time to add new language features.

When adding language features, there is a fun bit where we get to make up the language to write and think in.

The aim of this workshop is to give you a sense of this fun. Non-confrontational audience participation is expected.

Although very little of the code in this workshop will be Javascript, there is also a discussion about a number of Javascript tools to help you build your own little languages.