Daniel Berger said:
> Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
>> At Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:44:30 +0900, Fu Limin wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Could you explain what made it necessary to create yet another
>> programming language instead of improving an existing one (e.g. Ruby)?
>> I hope you *did* ask yourself this question :-|
>>
>> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
>
> I think that's a bit harsh.  While I've never created my own programming
> language, I would if I could as an academic exercise if nothing else.
>
> I suspect that, having created my own programming language, I would have
> a deeper appreciation for the inner workings and design decisions of
> other programming languages.  I might even be better at improving
> existing ones. :)

Exactly.  And if everyone had taken the "improve existing" attitude, we'd
all be coding in Fortran (albeit a very powerful, new and improved Fortran
:) ).