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We miss having environments like BASIC nowadays, Python is probably the closest to it, but at least by the 16 and 32 bit days of home computers, BASIC not only was structured, native compilation was part of the picture against.

Guess we need to hope for Mojo's success.

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Well, Python is far from BASIC, but you can run a Python-based BASIC interpreter if you want to get the retro experience.

https://github.com/richpl/PyBasic

My first computer was a Timex 2068, and something like CircuitPython or MicroPython, or TI/Casio calculators with them, definitely give similar experience.

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