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Q(uick)Basic Information & History

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    "BASIC was developed at Dartmouth College in the 1960s by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC is an acronym for: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was designed to teach the ideas of programming via an easy simple language. BASIC was well developed before IBM's even came out, in fact BASIC was used in many different computers. Just look at your old Commodore 64, it probably has a variation of BASIC. The early BASIC code contained those pesky GOTOs, and you had to add a number to every line. In the olden days there was no BASIC standard (hence the fact you could not transform your C64 created programs on an IBM and get it to run).

     In the early 80s Microsoft finally came out with DOS and their own BASIC variation: BASICA. It offered a major advantage: no more pesky GOTOs. BASICA soon became a computer standard for quite some years. There was still one major drawback: You could not organize a program into Subroutines. Finally in the mid 80s Microsoft came out with a good version: QuickBasic. It had the ability to revise, edit, and fine-tune your creations. It was also more organized, then soon QuickBasic gave way to Qbasic. A quicker cleaner more economical version. You did not have to shell out tons of money to buy this, it was completely free. Although QuickBasic is still a better program for these three reasons: 1) It has the ability to compile single programs. 2) You can create libraries. 3) You may load libraries into the system."

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