You can try Pascal. I switched from BASIC to Pascal 30 years ago then to C 5 years later. And even though C has been my everyday language for 2.5 decades for al

You can try Pascal. I switched from BASIC to Pascal 30 years ago then to C 5 years later. And even though C has been my everyday language for 2.5 decades for all my projects, Pascal was still the one that provided me the most natural mental model and that was the easiest to learn by practicing without lessons. I used to code as I thought without being interrupted thinking about stupid stuff like "I need a buffer to store this argument and to verify its length, ah shit I then need the ability to return an error if it's too large". In TP7 you even had "break" and "continue" statements that were missing from previous ones, that made it closer to C and a real joy to work with. The code was quite clean and extremely readable even with few comments.