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Sign in to saveBASIC ('''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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- 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.