Well, this is a nice development.

Without this BASIC the Commodore 64 would never have been anything other than a games console with an above-average keyboard. It opened up computer programming, not just entertainment, to millions of kids at super-low cost. It certainly doesn’t represent modern coding “best practices,” but it represents something kind of lost today: that READY. prompt just waiting for you to give it some instructions, instead of demanding something from you every time you log in.