Not going to argue with your points, except to say that I think it was good and useful for a primary school aged level of understanding. You could learn the en

Not going to argue with your points, except to say that I think it was good and useful for a primary school aged level of understanding. You could learn the entire language, every keyword, by heart. You could get to grips with all the various basic logic flows (if then else, while), understand variables, and you could get instant feedback (essential for the young kid). Scratch provides that learning place now, but basic was good for that first step into programming. Fully agree that it was easy to outgrow it (at least until things like quickbasic came along).