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Programming Language Design

Page created: 2022-10-19

Updated: 2026-06-04

Most recently: Small Programs and Languages (as a further meditation following my light and fun Forth article about implementing).

My current ongoing programming language design project is a concatenative "forth-like" called Meow5. (Update: Meow5 is complete! Check out my conclusion and tour of Meow5)

Also:

pl-simplicity
free-verse-programming
Token Separator (specifically Forth, but also generally)
Concatenative Programming and Forth (more ideas here)
bare-metal and named-register-passing
cs-grammar
mushrat and mushrat-lang ←-- My "long term" language thingy in incubation

External:

Cixl - a Lispy Forth in C (github.com) I always thought this was neat.