I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

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Thanks, BASIC, for teaching me so much I had to later unlearn in order to not be a garbage programmer.

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The first time I tried another programming language, I was confused as to how to write code without using GOTO.

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Some dialects of BASIC had more structured control flow.

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