[denton-scratch]

I've never been megalomaniac enough to think I could design a new language. But I did once write a Pascal source-level debugger; I think the compiler was Intel Pascal (long time ago). It taught me a lot about how the compiler worked, and how the language worked.

I've used to suffer quite badly from Impostor Syndrome, and that project did a lot to alleviate my symptoms.

I never shared the project with anyone else; it was never completely finished.

[pjmlp]

Nice story, thanks for sharing.

My hard drive is full of unfinished projects, started to learn about programming language, or try out new design approaches, quickly abandoned after the initial goal was achieved.

Regarding imposter syndrome, two guidelines that have helped me in such situations, are "only repent for paths not taken", "failure is better that not knowing at all".

Obviously those quotes aren't from me.