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The BASIC programming language turns 60 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/retrocomputing

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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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[–] paulh 2 points 11 months ago

I found that the simpler, early BASIC dialects were a good primer for assembly language. You had to create all the structure from jumps to numeric values. Goto and gosub mapped on to jump and call instructions.

Using labels in assembly was a step up from line numbers!

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