What did you want to do when you started to learn programming, and has that changed?
I wanted to create snarky, entertaining websites. And I don't resemble my past self at all anymore.
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I was trying to make generative art in Processing based on the my weird drawings of imaginary villages and landscapes… I then learned how that relates to grammars and linguistics, which tickled old conlanging interests, and led to me falling down the rabbit hole of PL stuff.
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It's taken me a long time to get somewhat proficient at PL stuff, and it's now my job, but by this stage it's a bit hard to get started on the generative art stuff like I used to. I'd love to get back there some day though.
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There is only one course of action - writing a custom DSL for generative art.
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Yeah! The paper I was interested in had a cool DSL for designing shape grammars for procedural architecture – I struggled to implement it, so dived into learning about how to implement programming languages. Now I go back to read the paper and I still don't understand it! 😳
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“Procedural modeling of buildings” by Müller et al. 2006
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That said I'm not sure it's entirely the right approach for what I wanted - which was more to do with ‘growing’ semi-fantastical buildings and venacular settlements, rather than trying to replicate patterns of settlement in a purely-top-down way.