If only those machines came with a system language compiler... As a kid, having to go through BASIC for coding anything held me back from learning the important

If only those machines came with a system language compiler... As a kid, having to go through BASIC for coding anything held me back from learning the important stuff. When I met my first PCs with Turbo Pascal in college, it was a revelation. But the machine and OS were much more boring than the Amiga and Ataris.