Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC (2008)

I felt a pang of recognition when seeing the BASIC examples. Spent several years plinking away, writing improbably cool games in BASIC on an HP2000.

Years later I tried to write something in BASIC; I was paralyzed by the lack of capability. I couldn't write anything; not a simple subroutine, nor a parser - nothing.