If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

I have moved all the original BASIC source code into a folder for each project in ... and it is both memory safe and a scripting language. The Pascal ports were moved to the alternate languages folder ...

Basic — an acronym for Beginner’s All ... developed by International Business Machines Corp., was the dominant language of computer programming. “We looked at languages and we both decided ...