Simon Brooke<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://babka.social/@serge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>serge</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kephalos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kephalos</span></a></span> I'm going to politely disagree with you. I am one of those people whose first introduction to computing was through <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a>, and it was a thoroughly bad introduction. It's not a language in which it is easy to think.</p><p>I'm fortunate in that two years later I was introduced to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lisp</span></a>. I don't think I would have totally given up computing if I hadn't met Lisp, but I would not have become the person I am now.</p>