I remember the time when I was a teen and started out with TurboPascal 8. It was a really polished experience with the inbuilt library being enough to do anythi

I remember the time when I was a teen and started out with TurboPascal 8. It was a really polished experience with the inbuilt library being enough to do anything console (even a GUI framework). Very found memories and it did show me the basics that I use today without overwhelming with details, squabblings and arcanea (it was fairly consistent). Very different to the patchwork you find if you start today and the constraints to work with a limited set of tools was really great for starting out. Throw an NPM ecosystem with a million terms at a kid today who tries to start out and you have lost the spark. Kids only categorize programming as fun or chore once and it sticks. Luckily there is still Python (you can get very far by limiting yourself to the standard library and it leaves space to actually focus on the exploration of programming).