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copied!<p>You will understand the decisions behind language design and garner a better overall understanding of the compromises made between readability, performance, and reliability. </p> <p>Your familiarity with concepts such as recursion, closures, garbage collection, reference management, typing, data structures <strong>and how these things actually work</strong> will increase. Most programmers will utilize resources and language features better.</p> <p>Similar to the way we learn new ways to code solutions when we use other languages, when we write our own languages, we explore new ways to create solutions. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming" rel="noreferrer">Metaprogramming</a>. Contrary to the what the question suggests, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language" rel="noreferrer">Domain Specific Languages</a> are used in many environments. </p> <p>If you're writing a compiler, you'll learn more about how computers work than you ever did before. (<em>Depending on your goal,</em> perhaps more than you intended to learn)</p> <p>When I wrote my own sort routines in school, even re-implementations of good ones, it really drove home some of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090624205111/http://linux.wku.edu/~lamonml/algor/sort/quick.html" rel="noreferrer">weaknesses</a> of some of the algorithms.</p> <p><em>In short, there's an order of magnitude of difference in a programmer who knows how to <strong>use</strong> tools, and a programmer who knows how to <strong>make</strong> tools.</em></p>

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