Language Author Beard Pattern

The "Language Author Beard Pattern" is best re-stated as "Language Creator/Designer Beard Pattern" a very amusing notion that programming language designers who have a beard (does stubble or a 5 o'clock shadow count??) have more successful programming language. The article is an amusing read to say the least.

Since I'm usually clean shaven (except when I get in my creative funk and forget to shave, or am just downright lazy and skip a day without the razor) by the language author beard pattern Mynx will not be as successful. Oh, and the magic 8-ball told me so too...but that won't stop me having come this far and being driven by other motives beyond the vague notion of programming language "success" (which is? -- having a certain threshold of programmers/developers writing in it, number of different compilers, count of code examples? what is the metric for "success" of a programming language?)

I outline my motives for Mynx in the Mynx Book. One that is unstated is to have fun, if creating a programming language like writing a book or poem is fun...intellectual fun to create and bring something unknown into reality.

Programming languages are like poems and poetry, they are the means of expressing the ubiquitous...for me it is the poem of poetry that is my expression like Picasso, van Gogh, Henry Moore, or Mapplethorpe (gasp!).