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The advantage is the "just works, stays the same, simple base" nature of it. Web dev in the browser with JS "just works" but slowly drifts, and the base isn't s
by quickthrower2 3y ago
The advantage is the "just works, stays the same, simple base" nature of it. Web dev in the browser with JS "just works" but slowly drifts, and the base isn't simple. Even learning vanilla JS is a lot harder than BBC Basic. There is a lot less to BBC Basic. For example if I remember there is zero functional programming capability, no closures, no objects even (I think there were strings, numbers, booleans, arrays of strings, arrays of numbers, arrays of booleans, etc. very simple types).
- zozbot234 3y ago> For example if I remember there is zero functional programming capability, no closures, no objects even ... very simple types This, pretty much. Of course it would be even simpler to start from a language where the only "type" is the machine word, like assembly or some varieties of FORTH. A language like BASIC adds only a slight amount of complexity, for a sizeable gain in ease of use and intuition.