KK>    I LOVE C, C++, BASIC, and any higher level language! :)
 KK>    Most DOS C++ compilers will allow inline asm code, which
 KK>    is about as lowlevel as you normally need to get.
Try Perl. It's sexy, optionally object-oriented, interpreted (with a
transparent on-the-fly bytecode compiler), very dynamic, and borrows
features and syntax from C, C++ (on-topic!), Awk, Sed, Basic, Pascal,
Sh, Lisp, Fortran; it has safe pointers, pattern matching, a function
definition operator (you can pass small chunks of code as an immediate
value to a function), built-in auto-extensible indexed arrays and
associative arrays, and much more!
The interpreter is written in C and is designed to be quite portable. A
DOS version exists (maybe even two), though i've only used (or seen
used) versions for Solaris, WinNT, OpenBSD, Linux, and HP/UX.
matju
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