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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.
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'''BASIC''' is the ''Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code''. John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented BASIC at Dartmouth College during 1963 and 1964. (Their implementation evolved into [[wp:True BASIC|True BASIC]].)
 
BASIC became popular, with many different implementations for various computers. As the decades passed, the many dialects of BASIC diverged from the original language. Though an ANSI standard exists for BASIC, it is irrelevant to most BASIC programmers, who only target one implementation of BASIC.
==Citations==
 
[[:Category:BASIC Implementations]] lists the many implementations of BASIC in Rosetta Code.
 
==Links==
*[[wp:BASIC|Wikipedia:BASIC]]
 
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