[ra88it]

I loved that manual too. I think we got a slightly different version with our IIGS, but I loved how inviting it was. I was probably 11, maybe 12.

15 years later in grad school I found a copy lying on a chair in a computer science classroom. I think it aged well.

[dekhn]

When I reread it, I realized I've been programming BASIC in every computer language I used since I learned BASIC. That includes C, C++, Python, Perl, and even LISP. Well, not LISP.