Rewrite BASIC language today?

Hi, if BASIC were to be written today, what changes would you have made,
if any, consistent with the meaning of the acronym? I am thinking about
the
physical limitations and the pressures to make the language like some of 
it's
now little used competitors.

For example, I have always wondered why those "doit" instructions - 
FOR/RETURN/
DO/WHILE etc are not all part of one instruction with several parameters.

Some of the differences between different BASICS are surely unnecessary
and 
not
consistent with the original basis for it's creation.

Perhaps sales of BASIC are not to or for beginners anymore? Perhaps the 
"educational" factor
once used to sell the language is not of much interest?

Has modern BASIC evolved into a development language for experts?

jj