Yes, but my reply is to a person who advocates BASIC as closer to assembly language. In this context, "BASIC" ought to be understood as Ye Olde Line-Number, Uns

Yes, but my reply is to a person who advocates BASIC as closer to assembly language. In this context, "BASIC" ought to be understood as Ye Olde Line-Number, Unstructured programming, BASIC, not the well featured, structured programming Turbo Basic or Quick Basic... ... which, by the way, i enjoyed using a lot when I was a kid.