Speaking of programming languages, the the techref page mentions XPL0 
as a
potentially useful language for PICs, but I no longer see any 
references to
any microcontrollers on the relevant homepage, and the 'direction' they 
seem
to be taking is decidedly non-micro :-(

Is XPL0 for PICs (and etc) dead, or is there a new page somewhere where
microcontroller interpreters and libraries are hiding?

(it seems to me that for beginners, especially, the libraries and 
support
functions provided by a language/environment are a lot more important 
than
the semantic details of the language itself.  This explains BASIC.
Assembler by definition doesn't come with any libraries, but there's 
lots of
sample code.  C didn't catch on until the libraries started becoming 
more
consistent across platforms.  Non-standard languages like JAL or 
Parallax
basic succeed largely on the strength of built-in or already-implemented
functions...)

Are there any other "generic" bytecode interpreters out there?

BillW
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