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I'd really like to know what knowledge do I have to pursue in order to create scripting languages from the ground up, probably using C++, maybe python, for those are the languages I know.

I've searched through SO similar questions, but nothing comes close of what I'm asking. I intend to understand language processing, not natural language, but scripts that doesn't have the focus on human readability, only on functionality.

My first idea, without any technical background, was to create a scripting language that assimilates a bunch of logical statements and making use of advanced built-in algorithms like logical reasoning, pattern recognition, neural networks an statistical analysis, in order to provide lots of useful(or not) information.

Sorry my bad english, I learned online, as almost everything I cited here :D and that kinda explains my lack of theorical background.

Thanks in advance.

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"From the ground up" is a quite relative term, especially if you consider Python as the implementation language. I think what you are looking for is the implementation of a domain specific language (DSL). Good starting points might be this book or this one. DSLs are a wide topic, so if you provide more details, we might be able to give better tips.