Category:BASIC

From Rosetta Code

Programming Language
BASIC is a programming language. It may be used to instruct computers to accomplish a variety of tasks which may or may not be domain-specific. You may find a list of its implementations here, and a list of its users on RC here.

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using BASIC.

See also: BASIC on the HOPL

In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) refers to a family of high-level programming languages. It was originally designed in 1963, by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College, to provide access for non-science students to computers. At the time, nearly all computer use required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do. The language (in one variant or another) became widespread on home microcomputers in the 1980s, and remains popular to this day in a handful of heavily evolved dialects.