BASIC ruled the 1980s. Here’s why Python quietly became the new gateway to coding

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If you ever used a computer in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, your first foray into programming was most likely with BASIC. How-To Geek’s David Delony presents the reasons why Python has taken its place as the language of choice for people learning to program. Python is everywhere It’s easy to get started with There’s a lot of info available Python is BASIC’s spiritual successor Python is easy to get started with and powerful enough even for complex tasks like scientific computing. It’s no surprise that it’s emerged as a language of choice. See the details in the yahoo!tech article here.