A regular column about programming ... secondarily for the machine to run. BASIC proved this at scale. But as a practical language? For making shippable software? BASIC wasn’t always great.

including a version of BASIC. “But if you move away from Alaska it’s probably not a very expressive language. In a similar way, programming saw a paradigm shift from building software for ...

The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th birthday on May 1, marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language ... BASIC as free public software ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language ... and-drop element to coding simple software for Windows.

Probably not. 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 ...

He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in ... and BASIC was designed to be a language with which software could be written by average students who perhaps didn’t have a ...

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, the system is easy to learn ...