BASIC Language History
The cluster focuses on the history, implementations, and nostalgia for BASIC programming language variants like Microsoft BASIC, QBASIC, C64 BASIC, and modern recreations, including books, interpreters, and comparisons across old computers.
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2007 6
2008 11
2009 38
2010 74
2011 75
2012 75
2013 118
2014 127
2015 152
2016 207
2017 159
2018 301
2019 284
2020 390
2021 257
2022 409
2023 517
2024 326
2025 472
2026 13
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Microsoft Basic on C64 was cool
Program in the old BASICS, such as BASICA or QBASIC. Very fun.
How about when they invented BASIC
This Book https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3783110M/Implementing_BASICs Explains how much of it is done
He’s right.. this is what BASIC used to be
BASIC was made for beginners ;)
Hey, some people learned programming with BASIC on Z80...
Have you looked at modern BASICs?
Here is a blog post: https://blog.steve.fi/so_i_wrote_a_basic_basic.html
Sinclair BASIC does something similar