Have you ever looked at Forth? It's postfix and stack-based, but is exactly what you want from the standpoint of bootstrapping from next-to-nothing and getting

Have you ever looked at Forth? It's postfix and stack-based, but is exactly what you want from the standpoint of bootstrapping from next-to-nothing and getting a high-level language. Here's thoroughly documented source for a Forth interpreter (http://www.annexia.org/forth http://www.annexia.org/forth) in i386 assembly.