To support your argument, p-code is closer to what a portable, assembly language looks like. It's an abstract machine that can be trivially targeted to about an

To support your argument, p-code is closer to what a portable, assembly language looks like. It's an abstract machine that can be trivially targeted to about any CISC or RISC machine. Let amateurs without compiler knowledge port Pascal/P to around 70 architectures in 2 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine Linoleum was another: http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/frameset.html http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/frameset.html The closest in C land was C-- by Jones et al which still looks heavy compared to p-code: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/index.html http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/index.html