Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing. T… ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

Run BASIC provides a programmable BASIC interpreter as an online service so that users can create programs and execute them on the Web site.

His programs were rife with programming techniques deeply tied to the TRS-80’s particular software and hardware, and in a quest for more speed than Microsoft BASIC was theoretically capable of ...

3DS owners who download the software and understand BASIC will be able to program pretty much anything they can think of within the confines of the application.

QBASIC is a software interpreter for the BASIC programming language that showed up in 1991, and basic it is. Here’s a little video of a game created by IBM to show off the awesome power of ...

Even those who did not go on to become software engineers say that the fundamentals of programming a computer at the coding level has helped them shape how they think logically, has sharpened ...

I used to program in BASIC on an HP 3000, which now feels like about a billion years ago. I was 14 at the time. Our school rented a dial-up terminal from the University… ran at 75 baud initially ...