If the words "Symbolic Instruction" in the name sound familiar, they should. ASIL (pronounced "a-sill") was largely inspired by BASIC. However, instead of starting with a modern verison of BASIC, I started with AppleSoft. Why? Well, ASIL was born in the early 1990s while I was in college. I knew AppleSoft quite well as it was my first programming language. ASIL nearly died then as the compiler technology wasn't up to the job. Now, I figure those compilers might be able to do the job. ...