You have gone to far, Michael!

let´s create our own crazy programming language

the language should
- be easy to learn (like lite-c)
- be free of features like classes, generics or reflection (no pain no gain)
- allow writing high intellectually looking source code comments
- be robust, secure, scalable, bla, bla (just for marketing)
- be supported by SED
written applications should
- be runnable on windows-pc´s and galep-chips (and maybe, in the next century, also on android)
- look fantastic or crash by a malfunction

we could name it "jcl" (an recursive acronym for "jcl coding language")

I want to try Shakespeare.


Well that sounds great except No.

...except Yes! Not to just disagree with Redeemer for the sake of it, I really like the idea of "jcl" standing for "jcl coding language", and therefore we must create such a language.

Wouldnt be easier to just re-name C-Script to JCL?

i like the jcl idea too.

has anyone here worked on his own language? i have never looked into this and wouldn't even know where to start. i think some languages like boo make it quite easy to change their syntax though.

start with lex and yacc, it's not that hard.

Well Scala (afaik) is a language which adds features from the functional programming world to an object oriented programming language. So if you only use it in an object oriented way you miss out on many great features. But yes you didn't say that, so of course it's an alternative to Java. But what I meant was: don't miss out on the functional part of Scala, it makes a lot of things easier. Of course functional programming is not the answer to all problems.
Anyway Scala is a language I want to look into in the future too.

By the way another language (family) not on the list is:
Assembler

edit:
Another one would be Fortran

cobol

I like Delphi!

Try http://www.antlr.org/ to write your own language and/or get the "Dragon Book".

@gri: If you really want to make money, grab all Cobol developers you can find and build up an IT Service Company for banks and insurances. You'll get rich!