languagedesign
Language design is the systematic process of creating, refining, or extending a language system. It covers natural languages, constructed or controlled languages, and programming or domain-specific languages. In natural language design, goals include clarity, expressiveness, and social adoption, balanced with tradition and multilingual interoperability. In programming language design, goals emphasize safety, readability, expressiveness, and performance, weighed against simplicity and implementability.
Key decisions in language design include syntax, semantics, type systems, and runtime behavior. Designers select formalisms
The design process typically involves requirement analysis, goal setting, prototyping, formal specification, and iterative evaluation. Common
Evaluation measures encompass learnability, expressiveness, maintainability, error rates, safety, and runtime performance, along with the practicality
Examples of languagedesign efforts range from natural language projects like constructed languages or controlled natural languages