I second that. Today, clearly BASIC can be a great "toy" language to get into programming. And being so different from "modern" languages is not a disadvantage

I second that. Today, clearly BASIC can be a great "toy" language to get into programming. And being so different from "modern" languages is not a disadvantage but actually an advantage. There's another world then standard-imperative-oop-languages. Why not go to Haskell after BASIC? There is so much more to explore then Python or Processing...