[jaydubya]

I was first taught BASIC in middle school. It seemed like a good begining program to me. Although at the time I new no other. I'm unfamiliar with REXX, but I'll take a look at it, Thanks.

[TechJunkYard]

I learned on BASIC myself, back in high school, on a Trash-80. But when I actually did coding for a living, they were teaching Structured Programming and my BASIC mindset was a real handicap.

Structured Programming is a concept which breaks down any programming task, no matter how complex, into combinations of only four basic constructs:

• simple sequence of instructions
• if-then-else
• do-while
• do-until

If designed this way, the resulting code is much easier to understand and maintain.

[Bush2000]

I was first taught BASIC in middle school.

Right, look what happened to you...