And yet if we had to either write in or compile all our code down to QBasic in order to make web apps, we would be justified in complaining about that.
A BASIC descendant (VBScript) very nearly did become the scripting language of the Web. If it had gone that way, I'd like to think that I would tolerate it and write useful apps with it, as long as it didn't mean that Microsoft would have lasting control over the spread and evolution of the Web platform.
