This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Before pushing back on what seemingly falls into the unthinkable category, check out the reasons why Lou Frenzel is saying that BASIC deserves another look.

Why Johnny can’t code BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.

BASIC Beginnings Sooner or later, it was inevitable that someone would come up with a programming language aimed at beginners.

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Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth? Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.

Can you believe it? The BASIC programming language is 50 years old this month.

Microsoft works on a programming language that could bring it a win with hardware accelerators in Azure AI workloads.