Comment by guard-of-terra

I don't think that QBasic is so bad as procedural language.

All the primitives are there and I've never written any code with much GOTOs in them. Just did not feel the need even when I was 10 years old.

What this article clearly lacks is

    SCREEN 13

Seriously, unsurpassed easiness of programmable graphics. Even by javascript, which is otherwise better for teaching.