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by JSR_FDED 265 days ago
Applesoft BASIC is just so darn readable. Youngsters have nothing comparable these days to learn the basics of expressing an algorithm without having to know a lot more.

And if it ever became too slow, you could reimplement the slow part in 6502 assembler, which has its own elegance. Great way to learn, glad I came up that way.