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Hello the internet.

There's something about coding stuff I don't quite understand. I've been coding things, in some capacity, since I was seven years old. Back then, I was using Microsoft BASIC. Something I don't quite understand (and never have) is why aren't other languages that simple? As an example, a hello world program in C is five lines long. In BASIC it's one line. I've never quite understood why we've had to overcomplicate things so much.

I know that C, and most other modern languages, can do things that BASIC could never have imagined of doing (good luck trying to write an OS in BASIC). However I still think that there should be a modern language that is as easy to pick up as BASIC.

I honestly sound like a bit of an old timer saying these things, which is odd considering I was born a whole 43 years after BASIC was first invented, and 32 years after it was being included in most home computers. However I think people who make coding languages can learn a lot by just looking at BASIC.

I hope you enjoyed reading this very odd rant of mine.