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[Acronym] for __B__eginners __A__ll-Purpose __S__ymbolic __I__nstruction __C__ode (supposedly a backronym, made up after the name [BASIC] was already in use).
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+ 10 PRINT "This is a"
+ 20 PRINT "Haiku program"
+ 30 GOTO 10
A simplistic interactive ProgrammingLanguage designed at Dartmouth University in the 1960's to teach mathematics students how to program. They would go on to programming in [Fortran] IV, so this is the language that [BASIC] most closely resembles.
Not to be confused with VisualBasic, a wildly extended dialect of [BASIC] that only resembles its ancestor remotely and is still part of MicrosoftCorporation's portfolio and strategy.
