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Trying to solve the modern problems and showing that one needs more code than in Python is not the point.

The reason Basic wasn't horrible but amazing at the time as the home computers appeared is hard to understand without the context of that time:

Basic on these computers was, in today's language:

- an actual "complete" operating system and

- a command language and

- a script language and

- a programming language

Additionally, if one wanted to use the "full power" of the CPU one had to use machine code, as there was so little RAM that most of the programs that did fascinating stuff were true masterpieces. Those using Basic knew that it's not "all there is".