BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas in 1963, was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was ...

C++ is the main language used to build Chrome and has been a key language, along with C, for the Android Open Source Project. C++ is also popular in systems programming, the automotive industry ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, BASIC was increasingly displaced by more powerful and structured programming languages such as Pascal, C and C++. Critics criticized the often confusing BASIC code.

C++, which sees a significant amount of use within Google, is similarly a successor of sorts to the original C programming language. Advertisement - scroll for more content ...