1980s BASIC was maybe the only language I ever tried and disliked. Maybe it was because I'd never tried programming in assembly, I don't know. But it felt just all wrong to me. It abstracted over all the stuff I didn't want abstracted, and it didn't make it easy for me to manage complexity. I always had the feeling that to use BASIC, you ironically had to be really smart. To this day I have no idea how people wrote large programs in that language. Especially on platforms like TI calculators.