title = "#plt" include_feed = { tag = "plt", title = "Posts" } +++ Programming language theory and design. --- One of the more interesting fields of computer science, I believe. I've been fascinated with programming languages ever since I was a little riki. There's always been something magical about writing special words into a computer, and the computer being able to _interpret_ them. So with my tendency for digging deep into any topic I'm interested in, it was only natural that at some point, I started designing and writing those programming languages myself. An important thing of note is that I'm not an academic. I'm a practicioner and a humanist. Therefore, most of my programming language knowledge lives on the more human, design side of things, rather than the theoretical, mathematical side. I know a lot of the basics behind the theory of it all, but I'm by no means on the cutting edge of language theory and computer science.