New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Could the C64 startup screen have encouraged more users to learn BASIC?

Ask HN: Could the C64 startup screen have encouraged more users to learn BASIC?
5 by amichail | 4 comments on Hacker News.
In particular, the C64 could have started with a BASIC program already in memory and ready to run. It could even automatically LIST and then RUN the program for you. To avoid annoying the user, the program should just compute something, print the result, and exit without requiring any user input. You could even have a collection of short programs in ROM, with one randomly selected each time the C64 starts up. Do you think this would have encouraged more users to learn BASIC programming?

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