He's not wrong. Despite Edsger Dijkstra's infamous quote[0], it is a fact that most late Boomer/Gen X's first programming experience was probably with BASIC.

He's not wrong. Despite Edsger Dijkstra's infamous quote[0], it is a fact that most late Boomer/Gen X's first programming experience was probably with BASIC. For some people, it ended at GOTO 10, but for others it was a springboard into 6502 machine language, and then degenerating into C or Pascal, and devolved from there. Everyone has to start somewhere and BASIC is fine by me. [0] https://www.cs.scranton.edu/~mccloske/dijkstra_quotes.html https://www.cs.scranton.edu/~mccloske/dijkstra_quotes.html