Today, most programming languages use different types of structural paradigms (such as functions and object-oriented programming), but the easy-to-grasp syntax of BASIC, with its plain English ...

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a colleague, Thomas Kurtz, with the goal of bringing computing closer to ...

BASIC Beginnings Sooner or later, it was inevitable that someone would come up with a programming language aimed at beginners.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Programming languages also take differing approaches to carrying out processing, so writing applications can involve different tasks and activities depending on the language in use.

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I ...