[quaffapint]

Let's see my BE language progression went from...

Apple Logo->Commodore BASIC->Fortran->Pascal->PHP->Java->VB6->.NET...and other modern things.

...With scripts of various types mixed in there. But BASIC is what got me hooked. Being able to write my own games on the Commodore 128 was fantastically addicting. Leaving demo store Commodore's flashing background colors with POKE 53281 and looping around felt like I was the king of the world.

[steve1977]

What was really great with BASIC on computers like the C64 or C128 was that the barrier of entry was so low. It was just there, it was the shell. So you might as well try that

10 PRINT“HELLO“

20 GOTO 10

and see what happens