I started programming on TI-BASIC (that's right, on TI's TI-80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-80). I don't know how mutilate

I started programming on TI-BASIC (that's right, on TI's TI-80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-80). I don't know how mutilated that makes me, but if people such as me were put in an asylum, well... you'd need a pretty big asylum. IMHO, people who start with Basic are doing it as a first exposure to something they will love to do, so not such a bad thing. Hell, learning TI-BASIC didn't stop me from acing all the Lisp classes I took afterwards.