sharke
Not too long ago I had as a client the famed video game legend Richard Garriott who was responsible for the Ultima series of games during the 80's (and who went on to finance his own trip into space a few years ago). I was talking to him about programming one day and he told me he never learned C and wrote the Ultima titles in BASIC. I'm presuming they were subsequently compiled but it was still a surprise to me to realize that you could create a commercial game release with it. Personally I could never get to grips with using line numbers and all those GOTO's.