Quote Originally Posted by katrina
DO NOT LEARN BASIC FIRST UNLESS YOU PLAN ON MOVING TO FORTRAN NEXT!
I don't think that Basic could be compared with the World's oldest high-level language. Fortran is a very good language, although only for scientific computations. If you ever used Matlab or Octave, you used language that might be called a script version of Fortran. The only problem are coding conventions that look like they didn't change since the fifties.