BASIC has its roots in academics, where it was intended to be an easy to use programming language for every student, even those outside the traditional STEM fields.

Click to expand... Another basic language, FutureBasic for Macintosh has evolved into a very powerful language. It maintains most of the early BASIC commands while adding modern commands.

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...