Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...

Kernighan and Ritchie said themselves, “code involving a goto can alway be written without one” but [Mike] found that using goto left a lot more room available for BASIC code.

We asked software developers how they would use an AI assistant like Claude 3.5 Sonnet for a coding project. A frequently cited starting tip is to break down a complex problem into smaller ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

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 ...

Excel macros use Visual Basic code to perform functions unavailable through the program's graphical controls. For example, macros can extract data from a sheet, perform string operations on them ...