dhenry:
boy, was I wrong about that
You are not wrong at all: we all use products from a multi-billion company founded on BASIC.
Well... Yes and No. The underlying code needed to actually implement the BASIC interpreter
was not written in BASIC.
Even more comical is that in the late 80's and early 90's when NT was being developed,
it was done in C, using GNU tools running on MIPs UNIX machines.
--- bill