Hi. I wrote that blog article. I think you may be missing the point. It's not that BASIC is bad at being a learning language. It's great for that. I learned pro

Hi. I wrote that blog article. I think you may be missing the point. It's not that BASIC is bad at being a learning language. It's great for that. I learned programming with BASIC myself in that same timeframe. But today we have languages that are superior and don't have the hang ups that BASIC has. I don't see why we should be devoting resources towards new (and mutually incompatible) implementations of BASIC. Python is easy to learn and can scale to any level of sophistication (but it doesn't require you to know the advanced stuff to write little games, like Java requires you to learn OOP).