I just ported most of my reuseable BASIC code to C, and it is really very little drama.
I see little reason to go back to BASIC now I can only think of a few assembly bit banging reasons
just to make a point, but the grunt of the dsPic would probably still do it faster.

What started as a simple project became one dsPic that runs most useful code I’ve written
(PBP/asm code that I would use again), and a lot of C as well, with plenty of room left.

When you write in another language a while, it’s difficult to switch back, even one you’re familiar with.
It’s like that with C, if I write a BASIC program right now,
it will no doubt have braces and backslash comments until I try to compile it.