Funny I hadn't heard of this before, but I grew up with BLS Pascal (which is small but very capable). Wirth's most recent iteration on the theme is Oberon [1]

Funny I hadn't heard of this before, but I grew up with BLS Pascal (which is small but very capable). Wirth's most recent iteration on the theme is Oberon [1] and the compiler is quite small and digestible (one file for each the lexer, parser, and codegen respectably). With a less verbose syntax, this could be a nice language :) [1] www.projectoberon.com