"Someone should write a program to do this crap." — 11 yo, tiring of Basic's verbosity, proposes the IDE (I told him there are programs that do it, but the real solution is just to use a better language.)
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You should teach him Basic on an Apple ][...then let him discover POKEing little snippets of accelerated 6502 machine code into the buffer at $300 on his own

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‘S right - a precursor to pointers!
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For an IDE , get him on VBA that's on Ms access or any office tool
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I started at that age with BASIC also. Nice and procedural without too many abstract concepts. Great time to focus on this Paul
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Hmm. I remember finding python to be more intuitive than basic.
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lisp is a little bit developed ;) I know you love and I do too :D
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You aren’t going to forge him in the fires of Haskell?
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