That's wonderful/abusive. There used to be a macro assembler for the Apple ][ that came with an add-on package of macros that provided a BASIC-like language. It was heavily advertised in Nibble Magazine.

It seems someone managed to dig it up, collect some recollections by the author and demo it a few years ago:

http://www.kansasfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2010-neubauer-m...

https://vimeo.com/13739643

Circle is complete.