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