--- layout: post title: "Step 1: Rational (take one) and a name" date: 2019-12-01 categories: Programming tags: language theme: dark --- **This post is a draft and I'll finish it gradually** As I mentioned in [My new programming language](), I'm creating a new programming language. I'll try to pick up good points of different programming languages and avoid the cons of them. One of the most important aspects of any project is to have a rational for it. It's what I learned from [Clojure](http://clojure.org)'s culture. Rationals are a big deal in any clojure developers world. As fan I'd like to start my new programming language by writing down the rational of what I'm trying to achieve. ### Rational (Take 1) So far, the main reason to create a new language for me is to learn more and educate myself. But leaving that aside here is a list of reasons that made me consider the idea of creating a new language (in no specific order): #### Lisp is superior #### Development process It might come to a surprise but not all documentation on source #### Simplicity #### Built-in Concurrency