And why not!? we have at least two basic interpreters (with the SDL one being so nice with graphics and so): you may loose some time to test it and to see if it's actually working as expected.
People simply can't believe how valuable their work can be, even if they don't know anything about coding. Just look at me: C and old aramaic are the same for me, but I just managed to build the leading AROS distribution. Not too bad for a not-programmer, isn't it? ;-)
Basic interpreters? which?
But we need compilers...