I think it is more interesting to see which languages are still used today and how popular these are. Because this is also tied to the human user/developer.
For instance, I used BASIC when I was young - not as a professional but as a hobbyist. I liked it too. I wouldn't use BASIC today because it would be entirely useless and inefficient.
I started with BASIC too. Also enjoyed BlitzBasic2 for a long time on the Amiga. That's where I learned programming… back then when programming was still fun.
It fall out of fashion, along with Pascal, Perl, Ruby, but that's just fashion.
How can a language be "inefficient"? You can say it lacked on expressiveness. Maybe was too verbose? But I would not place BASIC into the "verbose" category.
Because BASIC simply doesn't have first-class functions, and they would be quite hard to represent in a BASIC-like syntax while keeping the language idiomatic. Even the unreasonably clunky C pattern of having a pointer to a function taking void* as its first argument (to account for closure captures) gets you a whole lot closer to functional programming than even the fanciest BASICs.
I don't have to relearn natural language every 5-10 years, but for some reason I'm expected to when it comes to programming.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/
https://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic-pic
Just the three that come to my mind, of BASIC toolchains that people actually pay real money to use.
One thing I've learned over the years is that the language is almost irrelevant, the tooling and 3rd-party library support are much more important.