Q42979

Also known as Symbolic Instruction Code, BASIC programming language, Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BASIC ('''Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code''') is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn.

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Programming language.screenshot: Green bottles BASIC.png
Programming language.screenshot caption: Atari BASIC (1979) for Atari 8-bit computers
Programming language.paradigm: Non-structured, later procedural, later object-oriented
Programming language.wikibooks: BASIC Programming

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Commons category: BASIC (programming language)
inception: 1964-00-00
file extension: bas
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/basic

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Contents

Origin
Standards
Spread on time-sharing services
Spread on minicomputers
Explosive growth: the home computer era
IBM PC and compatibles
Visual Basic
Post-1990 versions and dialects
Calculators
Windows command-line
Other
Legacy
Syntax
Typical BASIC keywords{{Anchor|keywords}}
Data manipulation
Program flow control
Input and output
Mathematical functions
Miscellaneous
<span class="anchor" id="integer"></span>Data types and variables
Examples
Unstructured BASIC
Structured BASIC
Object-oriented BASIC
Compilers and interpreters
See also
Notes
References
General references
External links

BASIC ('''Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code') is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn.

In addition to the programming language, Kemeny and Kurtz developed the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS), which allowed multiple users to edit and run BASIC programs simultaneously on remote terminals. This general model became popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and Data General Nova in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hewlett-Packard produced an entire computer line for this method of operation, introducing the HP2000 series in the late 1960s and continuing sales into the 1980s. Many early video games trace their history to one of these versions of BASIC.