my first language was Tandy/Radio Shack Extended Color Basic which was derivative of Microsoft Basic

super simple language, did all teh things...

until #golang there was no other language as simple as #BASIC, that did all the things

when i was 9 years old i was attempting to write a GUI with the above mentioned variant of BASIC on the TRS-80 CoCo my father bought... mainly for his own amusement, but peripherally for my education

of course, he didn't really want me to learn, i had compulsive curiosity and i read every magazine he bought and the programming manuals for days on end until i became inspired to write my own things based on what i'd learned