The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html
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Blogging about my programming language project: choosing the basic syntax!
https://www.garden-lang.org/blog/syntax.html