In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

BASIC is one of the simplest high-level programming languages. Its developers focused on creating a language that novice programmers could use ...

From 1991 when Visual Basic was first released, the brand’s programming language has undergone a lot of changes and transformations, and multiple versions of it has been introduced. This article will ...

BASIC still lives on these days—itself modernized, with GOTO (mostly) banished—in the world of Microsoft Visual Basic, which many non-coder officefolk have used to kludge together apps for ...

May Day 2024 was the 60th anniversary of the BASIC programming language, and multiple FOSS BASIC-related projects released new versions in celebration. Three very different flavors of BASIC seem ...

This led to her first job in the technology sector as a COBOL and Visual Basic programmer for the Bank of England: This was the mid to late nineties, doing the Millennium Bug [fix]. I was based in the ...