I own a bunch of retro machines and use them to teach my kids BASIC (and LOGO). Sometimes I’d do a bit of coding on there myself for a bit of fun. Sometimes I

I own a bunch of retro machines and use them to teach my kids BASIC (and LOGO). Sometimes I’d do a bit of coding on there myself for a bit of fun. Sometimes I do catch myself “thinking in BASIC” when writing coding with C-style syntax. In that rather than saying: For brackets I equals zero semicolon.... Instead I’ll say For I equals zero to n (Similarly for function blocks / “End Function” too). For all it’s warts, BASIC can read a little like pseudocode. Edit: it probably comes as no surprise that even until the late 90s I still preferred writing code in Pascal than I did in C.