This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

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Because BASIC is the first language that many computer scientists learn, it has been, for generations, a mother tongue of technologists.

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Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages.

Because BASIC is the first language that many computer scientists learn, it has been, for generations, a mother tongue of technologists.