[shuwix]

By your logic ... BASIC is useless. By your logic ... people are born a programmers.

Yet BASIC was literally a first stepping stone for small kids into the World of programming. Most of what we have now is because some 6-7yo kids in 80's and 90's had BASIC and could figure out stuff by themself, without external help.

[broken-kebab]

I don't think this is the logic of the parent, and BASIC wasn't a non-developer PL at all. It was simplified but followed those days' programming practices, and one may say was closer to raw assembler than most today's high-level languages