i feel like BASIC might be the peak of accessible programming in more ways than one, and that's sad

i think we lost a lot in the transition to structured programming

@jookia BBC BASIC (widely taught in UK schools in the 1980s) and QBASIC both allow structured programming.. I suspect the other issues are so many extra libraries/frameworks/dependencies all with their own steep learning curves, and things constantly changing (OTOH I recently used a BBC emulator to demonstrate how the SAA5050 Teletext graphics worked BITD and could still remember how to do some stuff 35 years later)

@vfrmedia allowing is different enforcing

@jookia at least at my high school the teacher enforced structured programming techniques (or at least you got better marks for using those)

@vfrmedia yikes

@jookia I think the whole reason BBC BASIC was rolled out across England was that it corrected some of the flaws of conventional BASIC (to be fair the standard of IT education in many British high schools was very good and until recently superior to today, although coding is now being taught in high schools once more)

@vfrmedia @jookia I think that, at that time, it was more important to fit Basic into ROM than what kind of paradigm has implemented.
If #c64 had more powerful BASIC (like BBC) it would be used in the structural way I'm sure...