BASIC really does what it was designed to do

it is certainly very easy to get going very quickly and achieve quite a bit with very little effort

i praise the creators of BASIC, kemeny and kurtz, for their vision of an accessible and yet fascinating approach to computing

something of the spirit of BASIC is not captured by the UNIX tradition. compared to the friendliness and openness of BASIC, UNIX revels in being arcane, with its greyboards--its initiates being a select few.