Programming with BASIC is FUN!

(After Boot: Screen of Commodore C-64 Screen with BASIC command ready for input)

I'll think if you're a computer veteran. Have used home computer before, I'll think surely you're remember this fun and popular programing language, BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). BASIC was originally developed at Dartmouth College by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in the mid-1960s. Because of its simplicity, it was quickly adopted by several commercial timesharing services, which caused it to receive a broad exposure among thousands of computer users. Each of the major computer manufacturers, wishing to remain competitive, soon offered a version of BASIC for its own line of computers. Thus, BASIC rapidly became the most widely used timesharing languages in the United States and Canada.

Another reason BASIC programming language is so popular because of its widespread availability. The language is available on practically every large computer, and it is supported by virtually all commercial timesharing services. As time goes by BASIC has become the standard language for most microcomputer applications. Hence the language can be used on both large and small computers, in all types of different programming environments.

Those day, of the many programming languages that are common in use, none is easier to learn or to use than BASIC. Yet this remarkably simple language contains enough power and versatility to be used by people in many different occupations for a wide variety of application.

BASIC programming courses have become common in many high school and junior high schools as well as most colleges and universities. Even those day elementary schools offer introductory BASIC courses to select groups of students!.

I'll don't know perhaps it's already been forgotten by today young children because I never heard nowadays BASIC been teach at school level or probably BASIC is already obsolete programming language. You'll won't find any BASIC interpreter included with, let says Microsoft Windows XP Operating System.

Yeah, BASIC programming language popularity is dead for good!.Although you'll might find a
company still selling BASIC interpreter but the atmosphere, the feeling, the urged to learn and the fun of it are gone now and will never be the same anymore. All this sense can't be revived forever, Good Bye BASIC, rest in peace.