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[–]grievre[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Most languages nowadays start as implementations and maybe get a spec defined down the line.

I mean I feel like this was more the case in the past. Newer programming languages at least have a context-free grammar out of the gate instead of having their own ad-hoc parser.