Mister E, that is not supposed to be a limitation upon the tool, but a description of their target demographic. You do not see PBP advertised in advanced embedded engineering journals, do you? No, but you do see several C compilers advertised. MELabs designed PBP to be a step up from Stamps--the language is almost an exact copy. It's 99% fool proof, compared to C which is about 10% fool proof. And they advertise almost exclusively in the hobby magazines.

Of course, it is all about what you can do with the tool. It is an excellent tool. However, you will never get PBP code as compact or as fast running as any C compiler, and probably the other two basic compilers, and certainly no where near as compact as asm code. It is not designed for maximum efficiency or anything else... just maximum ease.