WARNING-Disjointed random thoughts follow:

You might look into the 'B' language from days gone by to get some ideas.  I
like Mike Hardwick's ideas also as Forth is an interesting and quite
functional language.  Perhaps some kind of object oriented low level
language where you still have the capability to run time sensitive code but
with the added pre-packaged capabilities similar to the C standard library.
I guess this would be similar to the Hitech C approach of high level
capabilities (LCD I/O, EEPROM access, ADC, statemachine'ing' etc..)

If it has to be a C type syntax, then Perl would be neat on the pic.

Of course this is all pie in the sky wishing, but just trying to offer up
some ideas. ;-)

michael

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