When my boss acknowledged my effort in creating an in house scripting language. Makes me feel really really proud! 😁

Wow! Congrats. Sounds like a cool project. Do you have more details?

Awesome! Just don't become Tom http://thedailywtf.com/articles/...

@cst1992 But Tom is a super-genius!

@jallman112 That's the problem.

@cst1992 Wow! Is this actually a true story? Hahaha.
I think I have steered free of such an utter disaster!

@siljamicke I don't think so. No company would be stupid enough to have only one in-house created language that only one guy knows how to use, and it's completely the antithesis of any other language. It's a fictional story probably, but only the site knows for sure.

@Jumpshot44 It is not really anything super advanced. And when it was starting to become usable and I applied more features, I got this creepy feeling that in the end it would probably have been easier to use some already existing solutions, like maybe php or something.
Basically it is a specialized templating engine for generating content, primarily emails in our case. I struggle to come up with an USP right now, but it is kind of neat because you provide templates and data as plain text, and then pass a plain text "context" back and forth between the script interpreter and some UI. We will use it to build a gui tool to allow our non coder staff to make html content, but only allow them to make changes that adhere to our strict design guidelines.
Time will tell if it was a smart move or a JSDL fiasco. So far it looks promising. Our "new guy" learnt the language in a 10 minute sit down.

@cst1992 haha is bet you a considerable amount of money that, even if this story is fictitious, there are plenty of companies that would happily pay for such a powerful DSL.

@cst1992 i mean you can create new functionality just like that, for crying out loud! 😂