But we are talking about programming languages today. The article in question is "Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead." The article details alternative

But we are talking about programming languages today. The article in question is "Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead." The article details alternatives you can run today, such as FreeBASIC. The commenter you're replying to argues that BASIC no longer has the advantages it had in 1963, which are unrelated to the language syntax, and that Python offers a closer alternative in that it makes programming accessible.