How difficult is it to write a compiler?
As I learn more computer languages, it's striking how similar they are to each other, especially procedural programming languages. I've been spending some time learning functional languages like Lisp as well, and those certainly are a different beast, but underneath all languages is a similar core.
I'm really interested what programming languages in 100 years are going to be like. We've had such development in the last 70 years, where is going to go?
