So, You Want To Write Your Own Programming Language?

[Casper Færgemand" <shorttail at hotmail.com>]

On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 11:59:30 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> I'd like to measure this statement experimentally: are error 
> messages in Go and Scala any worse because of the optional use 
> of semicolons? My initial supposition is that the answer is 
> negative.

Error messages in SML are either really neat or catastrophic.