There are a number of these lightweight, embeddable programming languages - few are particularly innovative. I have often wondered whether, rather than a new,

There are a number of these lightweight, embeddable programming languages - few are particularly innovative. I have often wondered whether, rather than a new, very orthodox language, it would be more useful to have a lightweight implementation of (a subset of) an existing language? However, my discussions about MicroPython have shown that many programmers would rather learn a new language than try to restrict themselves to a subset of one they already know. It's likely that programmers who don't know e.g. Python, would also rather learn a brand new language. So, the number of lightweight, very orthodox languages continues to increase.