[StephenFalken]

  LinuxWorld.com: What is your advice to designers of new programming languages?
  
  Dennis Ritchie: At least for the people who send me mail about a new language 
  that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to 
  write a compiler. Don't have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless 
  you hook up with some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. 
  It's a lottery, and some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of 
  beautiful languages (more beautiful than C) that didn't catch on. But someone 
  does win the lottery, and doing a language at least teaches you something.
  
  Oh, by the way, if your new language does begin to grow in usage, it can 
  become really hard to fix early mistakes.[0]

[0] http://www.itworld.com/article/2826125/development/the-futur...