Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

Basic was the language for us High School students (I graduated H.S. ’82). Basic was what the teacher knew, I think, rather than a ‘requirement’ for programming intro. Not sure about other ...

If Basic had a domain, it was as a starter language, and there are many candidates to replace it, Fisher says. “The best ‘first language’ is a hot topic of debate,” she says.

Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with .NET. Designed for coding novices and children, ...

It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receiv… ...

Last month, Microsoft announced it will no longer add new language features to its Visual Basic programming language, first released in 1991. Visual Basic is an upgraded version of the BASIC ...

Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. ... The BASIC programming language turns 60. Thread starter JournalBot; Start date May 1, 2024; ...