11Jul/100
Grandparent of Ruby and Java: Eiffel and friends
I'm curious about the effort involved in writing a new programming language, and hence have been doing a little research (including watching Guy Steele's now-famous and amusing Growing a Language lecture). I know I want to target the NekoVM (primarily one of the targets of haxe, for now), but what languages should I base it on? One of the languages I've heard a good deal about about, mainly based on its design-by-contract principles, is Eiffel.
(even if you're not interested in building a new language, learning about programming languages and their design decisions increases our understanding of them and, hopefully, our proficiency with them)