Nothing matters more than ubiquity. Let me channel the old Steve Ballmer for a moment: Ubiquity! Ubiquity! Ubiquity! I learned to program with BASIC in the 80

Nothing matters more than ubiquity. Let me channel the old Steve Ballmer for a moment: Ubiquity! Ubiquity! Ubiquity! I learned to program with BASIC in the 80s. Somehow I survived, though old-school BASIC was like a clay tablet compared to JS. (Get this: No functions, all global scope. It was like assembly language but with less power.) But BASIC was awesome because every microcomputer had it built in. Walk up to a machine and start typing BASIC. I must have typed in the same program 20 times. I remember spending 45 minutes with this random Wang terminal thing at the local library, trying to find BASIC. I never did, of course, so I remember concluding that it was probably broken. I'm still not sure I was wrong, exactly. ;)