I started in BASIC in the 80s. The olden days sucked! - No good manuals! I lived in the sticks and had little access to the library. All I could do was flip th

I started in BASIC in the 80s. The olden days sucked! - No good manuals! I lived in the sticks and had little access to the library. All I could do was flip through the GW-BASIC reference book. It sucked! - Teaches bad habits. It took me years before I realized I was a bad programmer and was doing everything wrong! - Not as powerful as a modern system. Modern stuff lets you easily sprites on the screen. That's 99.9% of what kids want to do! You can do a lot more, a lot more quickly with modern educational languages. There are still big issues with distribution, but all things equal, it's way better to be a kid learning a modern language today than a kid learning BASIC in the 80s.