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Discussion on: What's the most ambitious project you have ever embarked on? Did you succeed?

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Dian Fay • Edited

Back in 2010 or thereabouts I had the idea to develop a toy language which operated on functions instead of values. I learned about EBNF and lexing and parsing, discovered ANTLR wasn't up to the task and used yacc to build something that actually processed some input.

Then I realized I'd invented Lisp and gave up.

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Ravern Koh • Edited

Haha I went through the same thing, though I didn't go as deep as you.

Maybe you can come up with something better than Lisp 😏.