Background knowledge in language design:

It is advised for programmers to have some background in language design even though most of them are never going to design a programming language. There are varieties of benefits by learning about the core idea behind the language design.

• A person cannot learn all the programming languages used in the computing industry.
• Moreover, learning a new programming language is a tedious process.

But if a person have some knowledge about the universal philosophy behind all the languages, then it will be much easier to learn a whole new programming language, because all programming languages are governed by a set of universal philosophies.