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 ...

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

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.

It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a colleague, Thomas Kurtz, with the goal of bringing computing closer to ...

Software Tech Culture programming BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding The language that paved the way for ...

Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with .NET.

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

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