Tcl Assembly Language.
See MS's bytecode engine ideas and The anatomy of a bytecoded command for more explanations.
CMcC: I've put some incomplete work on tcl script generation of bytecodes here: http://sharedtech.dyndns.org/~colin/bytecode.tar.gz
It dates from Apr03, and may not even compile - it's certainly incomplete.
Zarutian 28. oktober 2006: hmm... specifying the grammar of TAL shouldn't be hard.
Backus Naur Forms:
<statement> ::= [<label>] <instruction> "\n" <label> ::= <alpanumeric string> ":" <instruction> ::= <mnemonic name> [<parameter>]*
Type of instructions needed:
But the question is: what architecture does TAL target? Tcl bytecodes?
AK (Jan 10 2007): AFAIK it would target Tcl bytecodes. As for the grammar, I would say it should be a list representation in general, and anything more formatted can be derived from that, i.e., for display, maybe editing, etc.