BASIC - Programming language

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BASIC, aka Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a programming language created in 1964 by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

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BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. In 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 829 BASIC repos on GitHub
Early development of BASIC happened in Dartmouth College
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 61 users using BASIC in 66 repos on GitHub
There are 1,336 Project Euler users using BASIC
Explore BASIC snippets on Rosetta Code
BASIC on HOPL
BASIC appears in the TIOBE Index
ANTLR grammar for BASIC
See also: (55 related languages) Atari BASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, Apple BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, Commodore BASIC, BBC BASIC, TI-BASIC, Casio BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, Liberty BASIC, Visual Basic, FreeBASIC, PowerBASIC, Gambas, ALGOL 60, Fortran, JOSS, COMAL, Visual Basic .NET, GRASS, AutoIt, AutoHotkey, BASIC-PLUS, HP Time-Shared BASIC, Pick operating system, MSX BASIC, Tiny BASIC, Li-Chen Wang, Altair BASIC, MBASIC, IBM BASICA, QBasic, Pascal, Turbo Basic, AmigaBASIC, C, Microsoft Excel, VBScript, C#, Java, QB64, RapidQ, PureBasic, Xojo, True BASIC, Microsoft Small Basic, QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC, LotusScript, VBA, Chipmunk Basic, HP BASIC for OpenVMS, SuperBASIC, StarOffice Basic, Forth

Example from Riju:

PRINT "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 END

Example from the Hello World Collection:

10 REM Hello World in BASIC
20 PRINT "Hello World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

Public Class StarsProgram
   Public Shared Sub Main()
      Dim UserName, Answer, stars As String, NumStars As Integer
      Console.Write("What is your name: ")
      UserName = Console.ReadLine()
      Console.WriteLine("Hello {0}", UserName)
      Do
         Console.Write("How many stars do you want: ")
         NumStars = CInt(Console.ReadLine())
         stars = New String("*", NumStars)
         Console.WriteLine(stars)
         Do
            Console.Write("Do you want more stars? ")
            Answer = Console.ReadLine()
         Loop Until Answer <> ""
         Answer = Answer.Substring(0, 1)
      Loop While Answer.ToUpper() = "Y"
      Console.WriteLine("Goodbye {0}", UserName)
   End Sub
End Class

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓
Print() Debugging	✓		PRINT
Line Comments	✓	REM A comment	REM
Gotos	✓	10 REM This BASIC program shows the use of the PRINT and GOTO Statements. 15 REM It fills the screen with the phrase "HELLO" 20 PRINT "HELLO" 30 GOTO 20
Comments	✓	REM This BASIC program shows the use of the PRINT and GOTO Statements.
Case Sensitivity	X
Semantic Indentation	X
Operator Overloading	X