Methodologies for designing a simple programming language

Question

In my ongoing effort to quench my undying thirst for more programming knowledge I have come up with the idea of attempting to write a (at least for now) simple programming l

Answer 1

You might want to read a book on compilers first.

For really understanding what's going on, you'll likely want to write your code in C.

Java wouldn't be a bad choice if you wanted to write an interpreted language, such as Jython. But since it sounds like you want to compile down to machine code, it might be easier in C.