Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A widely used programming language that is designed to be easy to learn.
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- proper noun A family of third-generation
programming languages (c.1964 on).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Small Basic, a simple programming language based on BASIC and a development environment that runs on Windows XP or Vista
MSDN Blogs 2008
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Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Small Basic, a simple programming language based on BASIC and a development environment that runs on Windows XP or Vista
MSDN Blogs 2008
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What is this like the “Gorilla. bas” game, written in BASIC that used to come with DOS 3.0 or something?
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He found that of the 900 largest US compaines those that engaged in BASIC resarch predictably outperformed those that did not.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending 2010
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Zvi Grilliches of Harvard found that of the 900 largest US compaines, those that engaged in BASIC resarch predictably outperformed those that did not.
Matthew Yglesias » The Defense Budget and Political Will 2010
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Many of my peers would write simple programs in BASIC (or assembler for the techies) for the early home computers.
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Other than the poorest countries, this group includes what have become known as the BASIC countries.
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The program was two lines long written in BASIC and was as follows:
I've been Tagged (3 times) ZenMondo Wormser 2007
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