A regular column about programming ... to run. BASIC proved this at scale. But as a practical language? For making shippable software? BASIC wasn’t always great. Graphics, for example, ran ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language ... Windows 3.0 in 1990, it became clear that the days were numbered for the text-based, command line environment in which classic ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming ... from the Microsoft Windows platform. It was only with the introduction of Microsoft's object-oriented programming language and development ...

The programming language also found its way into the business world: rudimentary database management programs and other important user applications were also being written in BASIC. As an example ...

A version of the BASIC programming language from Microsoft specialized for developing Windows applications. When first released in 1991, it was similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC. With its visual ...

Probably not. QBASIC is a software interpreter for the BASIC programming language that showed up in 1991, and basic it is. Here’s a little video of a game created by IBM to show off the awesome ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...