Editorial Reviews - Programmiersprache Basic From the Publisher Kapitel: Basic, Liste Der Basic-Dialekte, Qbasic, Purebasic, Gambas, Basicode, Visual Basic, Blitz Basic, Freebasic, Powerbasic, Ti-Basic, Commodore Basic, Atari Basic, Visual Basic Script, Turbo-Basic Xl, Visual Basic for Applications, Gfa-Basic, Gw-Basic, Darkbasic, Apple Integer Basic, Amigabasic, Owbasic, Business Basic, Locomotive Basic, Adbasic, Quickbasic, Stos Basic, Yabasic, Liberty Basic, Wxbasic, Omikron Basic, Bascom, Ti Basic, Realbasic, Poke, Simons' Basic, Commodore Basic V2, Applesoft Basic, Tiger-Basic, Wordbasic, Microsoft Basic, Staroffice Basic, Htbasic, Ti Extended Basic, Altair Basic, Basic A+, Amos Basic, Sys, Atari Microsoft Basic, Bbc Basic, True Basic, Basica, Mbasic, Ibm Cassette Basic. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. The original BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to be able to do. The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s. BASIC remains popular to this day in a handful of highly modified dialects and new languages influenced by BASIC such as Microsoft Visual Basic. As of 2006, 59% of developers for the .NET platform used Visual Basic .NET as their only language. Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive and used only for special-purpose tasks. A simple batch processing arrangement ran only a single "job" at a time, one after another. But during the 1960s faster and more affordable computers became available. With this extra processing power, computers would sometimes sit idle, with