The thought occurred to me the other day that assembly and BASIC share a lot of similarities in how you need to think of your program's flow, yet we ended with

The thought occurred to me the other day that assembly and BASIC share a lot of similarities in how you need to think of your program's flow, yet we ended with a world where assembly is considered respectable while BASIC basically (pardon) got burnt at the stake. I've been reading a lot about retro gaming lately, so I'm just thinking in the context of bedroom coders of the 80's that learned to program in BASIC, then moved on to assembly to get more performance, and then later moved on to C and C++ as projects became more complicated. They all seem to have turned out okay. I suppose what I'm getting at is you can write bad code in any language.