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All languages (except maybe Lisp, COBOL, and FORTRAN) were "yet another language" at some point. This is how innovation happens.

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yet with those languages were derived from constructs in math - new is always relative to the context.

Guess it depends on whats the advantage of doing this is? just for fun? or for a serious practical application.

Arguably the languages were not "yet another" in the sense that they were the first application of those concepts to executable code. But your point is well taken: everything has its roots in history.

I would say most reasons for creating new languages -- for fun, for production usage, as a learning experience -- are good.

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