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0. Learn new things, have fun doing it.

1. Immutability is awesome!  And C is a terrible language to
implement immutability in.  Should be fun!

2. Use monadic parsing so that the language (scheme-like in
nature) can be tweaked to try out new ideas.  This should also
make it easy to add support for interesting formats and perhaps
even make the (hopefully!) fast C parser available within the
interpreter.

3. Speaking of interpretation... if we link against llvm the
interpreter should be able to compile code to any llvm target.

4. Be portable.  It should run equally well in the browser or on
any architecture supported by the compiler. (empscripten? asm.js?
Sure!).