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David wrote:

I notice that nobody has mentioned Basic, designed as an entry level
programming language and much used on the BBC Micro.
Bad memories of Microsoft's take on Basic, then VB?
Or a preference for more modern structured languages?

BASIC.

There, I said it.

I did write my own BASIC though, so may appear somewhat biased, but if you
have a Raspberry Pi then head over he https://projects.drogon.net/rtb/

My experience has been that it's not the language that encourages sloppy
coding style - it's the way it's taught - or not )-:

So things like Python at least force a coding style and a structured
approach, but BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc. of old didn't force it,
so it was up to the programmer to adopt that way of thinking. Or not.

I did BASIC, then assembler, IMP77, Pascal, C, FORTRAN, COBOL,
BCPL in more or less that order waaaay back... I mostly program
in C these days (and BASIC, of-course ;-)

Gordon