> Your first programming language constrains how you think I call bullshit on that. A whole generation of programmers started with BASIC and went on to differe

> Your first programming language constrains how you think I call bullshit on that. A whole generation of programmers started with BASIC and went on to different languages. I went from BASIC to Pascal and had no problem at all going from GOTO to structured programming, but I did miss the REPL of BASIC. Btw. if BASIC cripples your mind, then so would Assembler, which is presumably how how Dijkstras generation got their start. Honestly I think it was just snobbishness. BASIC was available on cheep microcomputers which was affordable for regular people and hobbyists, as opposed to the machines and languages only available for businesses and academics.