Yeah:

parseInt("a") -> NoT a NuMbEr

The Javascript literal interpretation of NaN never fails to amuse me.

who will happily come in and sort out your security issues later

I really doubt anybody will be happy about it, even after considering the size of the fees. And also, you have a very high estimation of the capacity of those people to notice they have to call you, I really doubt it’s deserved.

The restaurant has exactly the average quality of everybody that cooks.

Not of restaurant chefs or people good at cooking. Everybody that cooks.

Some declarations terminate on the name, other declarations go one requiring more tokens. In C, the only thing that differentiates them is the type.

Parenthesis in particular are completely ambiguous. But asterisks and square brackets also create problems.

Good, now invent a keyword for variables you don’t want to declare the type. And now that you have a mix of keywords and identifiers on the same place, you can never update your language again.

Also, make the function declarations not use a keyword too, so you get the full C-style madness of code that changes meaning depending on what libraries you import.

Even older variants required both a let to declare the variable and a dim to set its size.

I remember a REDIM command, but I really can’t remember what basic it’s from.