| BASIC stands for Beginners All Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code. Basic first showed up in 1964
by J. Kenemy and T. Kurtz for the G.E.225 computer. Altair
PC was being designed by Paul Allen and Bill Gates. They
decided to make their very own version of BASIC for it.
The late 70's brought the spread of BASIC. It was ported
to Apple, Commodore and Ataris. |
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| What can BASIC be used for? |
| BASIC has been used to write many
games, software, and encryption utilities.BASIC
has the power to write all these. BASIC does not
have the power to write and OS (Operation System)
however, It lacks most commands needed to program
an OS. BASIC has been used a great deal in programming
popular software. |
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DIM Message AS STRING
'Declare a Long variable for the counter
DIM I AS LONG
'Store Hello World in the variable named
Message.
Message = "Hello World"
'Print Hello World ten times.
FOR I = 1 TO 10
PRINT Message
NEXT
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