As a woman: The horny divorcee that lives next door. Her specialty is seducing young boys and it seems she is always readily available for them. She teaches them many amazing things, or at least they seem amazing because it is their first experience. She is not that young herself, but because she was their first lover the boys always remember her fondly. Her cooking and sewing skills are mediocre, but largely irrelevant, it's the frolicking that the boys like. The opinion that adults have of Mrs. BASIC is varied. Shockingly, some fathers actually introduce their own sons to this immoral woman! But generally the more righteous adults try to correct the badly influenced young men by introducing them to well behaved women like Miss Pascal.
Shooting your foot: Shoot yourself in the foot with water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.
- found on the net in Tallus Humor Archives (I think)
Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code - says it all...
Old BASIC had a great time on the C64 and the PC, where one would end up in the BASIC interpreter if no boot media was supplied. Many great applications was written in BASIC and it was the language nobody thought could be made on the Altair 8000 (none the less, Bill Gates made it run). Today, it has gone and has been replaced by VisualBasic - a, IMHO, pathetic attempt to make an outdated language run on todays machines. I hope MS never attempted it to be an application programming language, but a macro-language. In that context, its acceptable, but not good. As far as I know, object orientation is more or less improvised, and definitly not a good implementation. Time has outrun BASIC - a good old language.
The language itself is easy learned and fast to create small modules.