"wtf are all those semicolons at the end of every line? etc" - that is exactly what i thought (in greek :-P) when i moved from GW-Basic to Turbo Pascal :-). The

"wtf are all those semicolons at the end of every line? etc" - that is exactly what i thought (in greek :-P) when i moved from GW-Basic to Turbo Pascal :-). Then i moved from TP to QBasic because it was faster to run stuff directly from memory than via the compile->link->run route in my PC/XT :-P. Btw there is a ready-to-use language in modern (Windows) systems too: VBScript. Just create a new file in Notepad, use the .vbs extension, save it, double click on it and you're set :-). About four years ago I wrote an article on a Greek magazine about introduction to programming and used VBScript for the concepts (i mostly wrote about the general idea of programming, but i needed something people could actually use and see in their computers). A few days ago someone told me that he got interested into programming by reading this article and after messing a bit with VBScript, he went to learn Pascal and C :-).