I started out programming with a Commodore 64 and having instant access to BASIC when I turned on the machine was really awesome. As a professional developer no

I started out programming with a Commodore 64 and having instant access to BASIC when I turned on the machine was really awesome. As a professional developer now, I appreciate the low level knowledge that learning on the C64 provided, but the more important thing was low barrier of entry to development tools. There is a currently a very low barrier of entry access point for programming on everyone's computers currently in the form of the web browser. You can view the source for any web page and change things around in the dev tools and console. Too many people yearn for the good old days of low level access yet are quick to dismiss Javascript as "toy" language. In the old days BASIC was just a toy too. The "real" programmers wrote their code in assembly.