> On the other hand, sometimes other people never transcended those bad habits from BASIC The kind of people that don't actively keep up with current best prac

> On the other hand, sometimes other people never transcended those bad habits from BASIC The kind of people that don't actively keep up with current best practices and latest developments are always going to be bad programmers though. It's not like you can pick a perfect language to start coding in that will teach you all the current and future best ways to do things. I personally don't think it matters what language you start coding in as long as you're always learning and adapting.