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   This is more “bootstrapping a langauge” than it is “creating a language”

Via Hacker News [1] comes presentation on creating a language using only
assembly language [2]. It's an interesting project [3] starting with the
simplest thing that could work [4] and building successive layers, gaining
capabilities as you go.

But it's funny to see this being presented as novel, when that's how it was
done back in the late 50s and early 60s. Personally, I might be inclined to
go the Forth route [5] instead of Lisp, but that's just me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699065
[2] https://speakerdeck.com/nineties/creating-a-language-using-only-assembly-language
[3] https://github.com/nineties/amber
[4] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/11/05.1

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