i think it depends of people hability to learn stuff of a certain difficulty level. personally i just dont get it, no matter how hard people try to help me. Even with javascript and html i have trouble understanding some stuff sometimes
Serious? html is just a little harder than bbcode. JavaScript, I learnt in very few time except some things. It was just testing what i read quickly on tutorial and seeing others code. (a good reference made wonders to finish the learning)
What I like in TI-BASIC is that you easily test code oncalc without saving files, refresh, assemble or open with emulator or program. And it triggers error on the line that happened instead of just crashing or not running at all (browsers refuses to interpret broken JavaScript).
But yeah, some people do learn stuff with more ease. But to learn ASM I just completely forget TI-BASIC (it does not help at all), it just serves to train a little your logic, if much.
I will not insist in you any more about other languages then. But you have what you need to get fun in "building" up a good community forum and making some RPG's. That is what matters. ^^