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I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

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[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The first time I tried another programming language, I was confused as to how to write code without using GOTO.

[โ€“] vext01 1 points 10 months ago

Some dialects of BASIC had more structured control flow.