Does anyone still use BASIC? I suppose Microsoft Visual Basic still exists, but when .NET came around, pretty much all the VB developers saw the writing on the wall and saw C# as the way to get the respect that C++ developers were getting.

My first programming was AppleSoft BASIC on the Apple ][. There were two ways to program an Apple ][: assembly language and BASIC. The latter was built into AppleSoft DOS, but there was no text editor, so you would type a line number followed by a BASIC command at the CLI and it would add that to the current program.

Throughout the 1980s, and even into the 1990s, if you learned to program at school, you probably learned AppleSoft BASIC.

(That's Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code for you acronym lovers.)