My best and biggest projects were written in GfA-BASIC. This language was both very productive, and fun to use. I could also predict exactly how each line woul

My best and biggest projects were written in GfA-BASIC. This language was both very productive, and fun to use. I could also predict exactly how each line would be translated by the compiler, and that enabled interesting hacks and optimization techniques. Kinda like Ruby, BASIC let you express what you want in an intuitive way rather than constantly try to work around the restrictions imposed by the language. There are many ways to do the same thing. None is good or bad. When it comes to being fun, expressive and productive, Ruby is the only language that comes close to BASIC.