An interesting example of this I came across recently is Pico: > Pico is a tiny but expressive programming language that was especially designed to teach advan

An interesting example of this I came across recently is Pico: > Pico is a tiny but expressive programming language that was especially designed to teach advance computer science concepts to students in other sciences than computer science … Currently Pico is no longer used as a tutoring language for its target group, but this is more a consequence of politics than of the astounding results we got with teaching Pico. Today, Pico is used as a means to teach principles of language design, interpreters and virtual machines in a sophomore course for computer scientists and in an adjacent course in a masters program in applied computer science. http://pico.vub.ac.be/ http://pico.vub.ac.be/