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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 [[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]].

'''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]].

==Technical Summary==

==Technical Summary==

The original BASIC supported single-character variable names (or a single character followed by a single digit) of type [[Floating-point|real]].  Arrays and matricies are also supported.

The original BASIC supported single-character variable names (or a single character followed by a single digit) of type [[Floating-point|real]].  [[Array]]s and [[Matrix|matricies]] are also supported.

'''Statements''': DATA, DEF, DIM, END, FOR...NEXT, GOSUB, GOTO, IF...THEN, LET, MAT, PRINT, READ, REM, RETURN, STOP

'''Statements''': DATA, DEF, DIM, END, FOR...NEXT, GOSUB, GOTO, IF...THEN, LET, MAT, PRINT, READ, REM, RETURN, STOP

'''Functions''': ABS, ATN, COS, EXP, INT, LOG, RND, SIN, SQR, TAN

'''Functions''': ABS, ATN, COS, EXP, INT, LOG, RND, SIN, SQR, TAN