[JustAnotherOkie]

With a name like 'KPL' it'll be a real winner.

Maybe one for the 3 & under set called POOPNPEE, or one for stupid people called DUMBASS.

[PAR35]

We wanted something that isn't 20 years old;

The guy doesn't know much about programming languages if he thinks BASIC is only 20 years old. I was playing with it more than 30 years ago. The first computer I bought (more than 20 years ago, I might add) even came with a neat function that would automatically number the lines for you. I quit writing simple programs in BASIC when Microsoft took away the line numbers.

[flashbunny]

I thought ActiveX was a kid's programming language.

Oh wait, it just seems like it was designed by kids.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

We wanted something that isn't 20 years old; modern technology that uses an integrated development environment, so we can take our kids and move them directly from this to the .NET environment.

Now that's some serious strategery!

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

Go Python!

Uh? Nevermind.

[ShadowAce]

[N3WBI3]

Well call it visual basic..

[jb6]

The fanatical islamic one can be called: HIGH-X

[Publius6961]

You're not going to learn how to program in BASIC anymore," said Morrison, in an interview

Why not, I wonder?
Perhaps he means microsoft basic. HP-Basic was an extremely powerful and flexible version of BASIC. With it, I wrote dozens of complex engineering, mathematical, surveying and astronomic programs, in the 70s and 80s, which I could be using today, had the ability to do so not been eliminated.