John He

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Game Developer. Working Lanuage: Go,C,Awk,Batch,Shell,Python. For fun: python TDD Jenkins and Games. like C and UNIX,Linux. Hate windows. Don't ask me why.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. Don’t have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless you hook up with some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. It’s a lottery, and some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of beautiful languages (more beautiful than C) that didn’t catch on. But someone does win the lottery, and doing a language at least teaches you something.

Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)

Creator of the C programming language and of Unix