The original BASIC was developed at Dartmouth University by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and Introduced on May 1, 1964. BASIC is short for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code and is an easy-to-understand programming language that was popular during 1970 - 1980. Today, BASIC is not used to develop programs but is sometimes used to help teach the fundamentals of programming. Below is an example of a basic program that prints Hello World!.
10 print "Hello World!"
20 END
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Although BASIC is not commonly used today new variants of BASIC such as Visual Basic are popular and widely used. Also see: Altair BASIC, DarkBASIC, High-level language, Procedural language, Programming definitions, Programming languages, ROM BASIC, True BASIC, Visual Basic | |
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