Originally posted here by Binary_01
Basic, Fortan and Pascal are worthless and only teached in schools... Don't got there!


It's my 2 cents take it or leave it.
Actually, Binary_01, people are doing some crazy things with BASIC these days. A number of Windows apps are now written in Visual Basic. There is even an entire community of game programmers working in a few different BASIC implementations (namely DarkBasic and BlitzBasic) who are creating some killer stuff. Of course, these implementations aren't your Dad's GW-BASIC, but their roots are there. GOTO and GOSUB are alive and kicking! BASIC is a great learning language, and with the implementations nowadays you can accomplish some great things.

Oh, and don't shove Pascal aside as a dead language either. Pascal has been reborn into the Delphi environment available from Borland.