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by zmmmmm 2820 days ago
One thing all modern languages (including Python) miss is the dead simple drawing functions of BASIC. They have no place in a regular language, but are super useful and intuitive in teaching programming. I tried teaching my kids Python at one point with a turtle graphics library but it was still annoying and complicated compared to BASIC where your drawing commands literally just "appear" on the screen.