BASIC Dialects
BASIC is a family of easy-to-use high-level programming languages. It became widespread on microcomputers in the 1980s, and remains popular in many highly evolved dialects.
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BASIC's name, coined in classic
computer science tradition to produce a good
acronym, stands for
Beginner's
All-purpose
Symbolic
Instruction
Code.
It ties to the name of an unpublished paper by the language's co-inventor,
Thomas Kurtz (the name thus having no relation to C. K. Ogden's series "
Basic English").
Dialects