Nostalgia, presumably... The atariarchives.org domain name implies this, at any rate. I fondly remember typing in Basic programs from books like this one as a

Nostalgia, presumably... The atariarchives.org domain name implies this, at any rate. I fondly remember typing in Basic programs from books like this one as a kid. I'd consider porting it to Python, except I think it would be a hard sell for kids these days. Edit: Oh wow... I just looked the atariarchives.org main page. The site author has gotten permission to post many other wonderfully retro books.