We did a podcast with Carl Gundel (Part 1, Part 2) awhile back, and we talked a bit about his runbasic site - which is a Cincom Smalltalk/Seaside site. While it's Smalltalk powered, it's all about Carl's product, Liberty Basic - and he's been wrapping Seaside with Liberty Basic to bring the language into the Web world. Here's a snapshot of one of his examples, which you can run directly on the site:

If you want to introduce someone to software, Basic is a great way to do it - and picking this one gives you all the back-end power of Smalltalk :)
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