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'''BASIC''' is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.  It is a Programming Language invented at [[Dartmouth College]] in 1964 by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz for the purpose of teaching elementary programming.  BASIC has since been defined in two ANSI (X3.60-1978 and X3.113-1987) and two ISO (6373:1984 and ISO/IEC 10279:1991) standards.  Its simplicity has led to widespread use; [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreters]] and compilers exist for variants of BASIC on nearly every hardware platform in existence, but the most popular commercial version is Microsoft's [[Visual BASIC]].

'''BASIC''' is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.  It is a Programming Language invented at [[Dartmouth College]] in 1964 by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz for the purpose of teaching elementary programming.  BASIC has since been defined in two ANSI (X3.60-1978 and X3.113-1987) and two ISO (6373:1984 and ISO/IEC 10279:1991) standards.  Its simplicity has led to widespread use; [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreters]] and [[Compiler|compilers]] exist for variants of BASIC on nearly every hardware platform in existence, but the most popular commercial version is Microsoft's [[Visual BASIC]].

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