Or you can go to http://tryruby.org/ http://tryruby.org/ and start right away. Not to mention every computer has at least one web browser with a javascript inte

Or you can go to http://tryruby.org/ http://tryruby.org/ and start right away. Not to mention every computer has at least one web browser with a javascript interpreter. And yes, today's languages may be a lot more complicated than BASIC, but that doesn't imply they're more difficult to learn.