It was a mistake to quit shipping computers and operating systems without even one hobbyist-oriented programming environment preinstalled & featured.
Even a dialect of BASIC, picking up where 8-bit ROM BASICs, GW-BASIC, and QBASIC left off, & much more discoverable & tinker-able than the WSH/VBScript buried deep in every version of Windows since 98, would've been an improvement.
At least then, explorers & would-be hobbyists would have options instantly more viable than the slop machine plague.
@arielmt more and more i feel like computer literacy dies with us
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@mavica_again I really hope we can eventually find a way to make that not the case.
