I'm not saying BASIC is it. But it was good enough in its day—my father used it to write engine simulations. It was the first language to attack the problem "ge

I'm not saying BASIC is it. But it was good enough in its day—my father used it to write engine simulations. It was the first language to attack the problem "getting computing nonprofessionals to write their own programs for their own needs" and it achieved that very well by the standards of the 01960s-01980s. But the fact that every computer shipped with a language that allowed users to get started with programming right away, was a noble thing we should have sought to preserve even in the present day. Scratch is for kids, and node spaghetti presents the usual no-code issues. HolyC comes close, but you know, Terry Davis. An acquired taste. I was kinda hoping that language would be Python, but even that requires ceremony these days.