What's in a language? Dr Laurie Tratt breaks it down by creating a brand new programming language by writing an interpreter in a few lines of code.
Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile
More from Laurie: https://tratt.net/laurie/
Dr Laurence Tratt is programmer and the Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London
This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com
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