[bunderbunder]

The approach I'm taking for a current language project is to start with a minimalist syntax for the first iteration. This allows me to focus on the actual language implementation, which is the part I'm most interested in learning. It also allows me to rapidly iterate on language features without having to spend too much time fiddling with the parser.

Once I've got a semantics I like, I'll probably do a second pass to come up with a new syntax if I haven't decided I'm done with the project. By then I'll have written plenty of test cases using the first syntax, so I should have a much better idea of what I'd like to get out of a more complex one.