I started in BASIC, and loved it. I was profilic, even. C and such were so ugly and hard in comparison.

Once I grew and learned other languages, I only then realized why BASIC is/was weird and 'bad', as people say.

I love that BASIC existed for me, and I learned a lot, but I don't think it has much value today.

I think Python is a similarly easy language, and one people can immediately be more productive in.