@retoor I challenge you to write a punchcard simulator.

An interpreter but with a VR "game" attached where you have to feed the cards one by one to the machine, search through the stack to find the destination of a longjump, and if you knock it over, manually sort it again.

It has to be VR because with a mouse and keyboard users may actually learn it well enough to achieve some sort of pace. The physical exercise sets a low upper limit on speed.

@retoor
No, Bill Gates did not let the source code of BASIC fall down before presenting it for the first time. The origin story of Microsoft BASIC involves Gates writing the code for the programming language for the Altair 8800, a microcomputer, along with Paul Allen. They presented the software to MITS, the company behind the Altair, in 1975. The success of BASIC led to the formation of Microsoft as a software company.