Same here. Truth be told, I likely wouldn't be a programmer today if not for BASIC. My first exposure to programming as a kid was actually a COBOL book, expla

Same here. Truth be told, I likely wouldn't be a programmer today if not for BASIC. My first exposure to programming as a kid was actually a COBOL book, explaining how to punch cards. Didn't get far there. Bought a C++ book and didn't get far there either. Found BASIC and found myself writing til my fingers were sore. One thing it taught me about myself is that I'm very very biased and/or strongly opinionated about languages and how they look. Love BASIC, hate COBOL. Love Python, hate Perl. Love Go, hate Rust. I feel like I'm cheating myself out of cool paradigms, but my brain has this builtin disgust reaction I can't get past.