# Hello from Alexander
**URL:** https://d.strumenta.community/t/hello-from-alexander/1310
**Category:** Introduction
**Created:** [June 20, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/hello-from-alexander/1310 "2021-06-20T17:56:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Alexander.Hansen](https://d.strumenta.community/u/Alexander.Hansen)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/hello-from-alexander/1310/1 "2021-06-20T17:56:27Z")
Hello everyone,
my name is Alexander. I am excited to be part of this community!
Since learning to program, i have been interested in the implementation behind
the languages i used.
I started out learning BASIC in my dad’s basement, then smallbasic on an old windows computer.
Later then I learned Java and C some time after that.
I believe that the Programming Languages we use have a large impact on our work
as Programmers, which is sadly frequently underestimated as corporations settle for less than
state-of-the-art Languages and Tools for their Projects.
Programming with Java for a Web Application got me into making some small Contributions
to j2html, which is a Java Library to generate HTML, implemented as an embedded DSL.
fun times 🙂
Later on i discovered the JOOQ project, which is an embedded DSL to write typesafe SQL in Java.
So this is basically my experience with DSL’s. I have seen how
they can be very productive and easy to use when embedded in a host language.
Later then i started my own programming language project (to add to the Trillion Languages already out there 😄 ). It is still active and you can find it here: [smalldragon.org](http://smalldragon.org)
It is a learning project where I’m trying to implement many things that are interesting to me at the time,
such as for example basic static analysis, a simple Typechecker and comparison operator chaining.
I’m looking forward to learning about the community and your various projects 🙂
I’m based in Ratingen, Germany, so if there are any free Meetups / Conferences (post-pandemic) around DSLs / Theory / Your Project,
that would be interesting to me.
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/hello-from-alexander/1310/2 "2021-06-25T08:54:18Z")
Hi Alexander, and welcome!
> [@Alexander.Hansen](#):
>
> I started out learning BASIC
Me too!
> [@Alexander.Hansen](#):
>
> I believe that the Programming Languages we use have a large impact on our work
> as Programmers, which is sadly frequently underestimated as corporations settle for less than
> state-of-the-art Languages and Tools for their Projects.
Fully agree!
> [@Alexander.Hansen](#):
>
> Later then i started my own programming language project (to add to the Trillion Languages already out there 😄 ). It is still active and you can find it here: [smalldragon.org](http://smalldragon.org)
Congrats, I hope you are having fun with it!