<p>Marianne is writing a programming language. This is probably a terrible idea, but those are always the best ;)</p>

No One Just Designs a Programming Language (featuring Thorsten Ball)

Marianne Bellotti wants to understand how the people who design programming languages do what they do, so she's jumping right in and giving it a shot by writing her own language. Follow along as she struggles to understand parsers, lexers, grammars, gets philosophical about the nature of error handling and gets in way over her head too easily and too often.