The article is not about teaching at all despite the title. The closest it comes to pedagogy is claiming (without evidence) that BASIC is how computers work in

The article is not about teaching at all despite the title. The closest it comes to pedagogy is claiming (without evidence) that BASIC is how computers work instead of those other languages with useful abstractions. > BASIC lacks some universally agreed-upon programming concepts > if one wants to understand how computers work, I think it’s easier to start closer to the level they operate Strangely, there's no mention of the PEEK and POKE commands if the author wants us to be lower level . . .