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Introduction

Programming is resource management.
Ruchira Bomiriya

There are four vital pillars in designing a programming language.

• A clear grasp (definition) of the fundamental abstract computing machine.
• A congruent semantics that allows derived higher level abstractions.
• A terminology for the core and extensions that is intuitive.
• A crisp syntax for expressing program design.

A program is machine that manages resources to fulfill intended purposes. There are four primary resources that a program manages: knowledge, labor, space and time.

A programming language needs to provide a one-to-one mapping for managing these resources. If we achieve congruent semantics, it would be possible to build higher level abstractions that captures computing constructs at high-fidelity.

The resulting programs would also achieve high performance.