Welcome, captbill. Very interesting find. Wirth as ever seems very clear:
"Whereas the syntax of PICL is to provide the conveniences of high-level languages, its semantics are to mirror the facilities and limitations of the processor clearly and honestly."

Welcome, captbill. Very interesting ...

It's quite a feat to get a compiler working.
I'm struggling to discover where, but somewhere recently I found someone intending to embark on a compiler for the 65816, I think, and mulling about whether to aim for Pascal, or Modula 2, or even Oberon[1].

Anyhow, I came across this post: Want to ...