Okay, next idea. FORTH is the genesis for the OpenBOOT initiative which underlies some recent system boot processes including Sun & FreeBSD. Imagine a coding system which can give you a complete interactive console-based IDE in 2K bytes booting your entire modern PC!
Indeed a friend of mine asked me if I knew any (thing about) FORTH, since he discovered it is at the basis of the boot system of his mac. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same thing as you're talking about, but it sounds like it is. I'll check your link ASAP.
The suggestion has been made many times, but I'll echo it. Learn C and make and study the source code of FreeBSD or Linux... so much to learn!!!
Oh C... I thought my fist post was quite comprehensive, and I forgot nothing the less than C!! Well, I used to know C, and C++, but it's over a decade I don't touch them any more. Indeed I do want to re-gain at least some confidence with them, but one of the main reasons why I want to is to learn XS programming. So this is a separate issue...

In reply to Re^2: New programming language suggestions by blazar
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