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Step 2: Make a lisp.
Step 3: Do it all in lisp.
Step 4: Profit.
Even Amber(https://github.com/nineties/amber) and its syntax looks a lot like lisp concept of grammar. But instead of (s expressions) you've got what is very similar to M[expressions] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression).
It's amazing what you can with Lisp.
Very neat. If you find this interesting you may also like jonesforth, another project developing a language starting from assembly. http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary
Since then I've often daydreamed about implementing a forth OS on something like the Raspberry Pi (just another project I might not get around to). I'm looking forward to reading the linked article as well.
I agree with comments about Forth.
In this kind of projects, there is also Urbit (https://github.com/urbit).
Sadly my only record of it was a fading fan-fold listing which is now gone.
Looking at the presentation: I really should have learned LISP earlier than I did..
Step 1: Make a language high-level enough to build a parser without being a masochist. Step 2: Make a lisp. Step 3: Do it all in lisp. Step 4: Profit. Even Amber( https://github.com/nineties/amber ) and its syntax looks a lot like lisp concept of grammar. But instead of (s expressions) you've got what is very similar to M[expressions] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression ). It's amazing what you can with Lisp…
This is really great. I agree with comments about Forth. In this kind of projects, there is also Urbit ( https://github.com/urbit ).
Very neat. If you find this interesting you may also like jonesforth, another project developing a language starting from assembly. http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary
For others curious how long it took: judging from the first commit on GitHub (https://github.com/nineties/amber/commit/bdb49d27968d6bc4588...), which references a first commit from 2009, it seems at least 6 years.
In ~1983 I wrote the first iteration of Sensible Solutions for O'Hanlon Computer Systems using MASM. Of course, it had to run in less than 64k. Basically, it was a VM that would run pseudo code. And, the compiler was written in ASM also.
In 1985 I wrote TAS, again using MASM. Again, a VM. The language it compiled (in both cases) was written to create business accounting applications, which I also wrote. Originally I called them Level 1, 2 and 3 where Level 2 was basic bookkeeping and Level 3 was a full blown Accounting package including invoicing, purchasing, etc.
Unfortunately, this was during the time of dBase and I got clobbered in Infoworld for not being like dBase. So, I wrote a compiler for dBase and called it dBFast. Sold a lot of copies through Egghead and others.
In all three of these we made a ton of money and, even more, created a whole group of people who became "pseudo programmers." I say pseudo because they could program in TAS, not necessarily in anything else.
I was very proud of what I did and hope there is one more language in me to make programming on the web significantly easier than it is now.
If you've never programmed in assembler I recommend it to anyone. Just try something simple. Until you do, you won't appreciate what we have today. Especially if you're running on CP/M or early DOS!