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Oct 3, 2026 27 min

Creating Your Own Programming Language - Computerphile

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What's in a language? Dr Laurie Tratt breaks it down by creating a brand new programming language by writing an interpreter in a few lines of code. Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphileMore from Laurie: https://tratt.net/laurie/ Dr Laurence Tratt is programmer and the Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com

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