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Here's an ebook on the subject: "How to Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language"

http://createyourproglang.com

Here's what some programming luminaries had to say (lifted from the website):

“The book I want to read.” — Matz, creator of the Ruby language

“I really love this book.” — Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of the CoffeeScript language

[quickthrower2]

"The book I want to read." - that's a rather odd testimonial.

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Japanese/English impedance mismatch?