Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "BASIC interpreter" in English language version.
Summary of positive issues: Visual Basic is easy to learn and widely available.
Because TA is so large (19,703 bytes), I found that execution became excruciatingly slow, simply due to the memory scan for GOTOs, GOSUBs, and RETURNs. A simple patch to the interpreter converts it to a binary search algorithm, for about an order of magnitude speedup in execution time. The necessary changes are listed in the Appendix.
