What Do You Know About BASIC?

BASIC is Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was developed by Professor John Kemey and Thomas Kurtz in the year of 1964 at Darmouth College in the United States. Their purpose was to develop a language which would be very easy to learn and thus can be used by the undergraduate students in all fields of study. The language has few grammatical rules and can be learnt in a few hours of concentrated study. In order to understand and write programs in BASIC it is not necessary to learn complex programming techniques. A person with little or no knowledge of computers or programming can learn to write BASIC programs in a short period of time. Because of its simplicity and bias towards the user, BASIC is even being used by School students. It is a language well suited for use in education and has become extremely popular with microcomputer users.

Unlike other languages, it is an interpreter based language. Instead of compilers, interpreters are generally used in microcomputer system to translate BASIC instruction into machine language code. Thus as a BASIC program is being entered, its statements are checked for syntax errors which can be immediately corrected. This feature makes BASIC one of the simplest language to use.

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