What is BASIC?
BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages with an extremely inordinate amount of family members. The first conceptualized version of BASIC (which is an acronym for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Introduction Code) was developed in 1963 by two Dartmouth students, John George Kennedy and Thomas Eugene Kurtz, as a way to provide access to computers for students that were not science majors. (Because at the time, the only way to operate a computer was by programming custom software, something that only mathematics and science majors were prone to do.) This original version eventually became known as Dartmouth BASIC.
In some form or another, BASIC's use became commonplace far and wide in the 1970's for programs on microcomputers, and in programs for home computers in the 1980's. BASIC was developed as a programming language that was easy for novice computer programmers to understand and facilitate. This general purpose programming language is interactive, provides easy-to-understand and user-friendly error messages and does not require an understanding of computer hardware. It also enables computer programmers to create quick and efficient programs to compute various small tasks, and also allows experts to use more advanced features all the while keeping the ease of use at a nice level for beginners.
Every day, a new offspring of BASIC arrives. Since the conception of the BASIC language, there have been over two hundred thirty two versions of it developed, (Namely: AutoIt, Famicom BASIC, and each Virtual Basic). This diversity enables a BASIC programmer to accomplish an array of small-scale and large-scale computing tasks, but also can cause hindrances, because most BASIC platforms, are not cross compatible.
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