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* ASIC programming language, a dialect of BASIC
AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language implemented on the Amiga computer.
Category: BASIC programming language family
BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use ; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.
* Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
Full colour scanline based 64 × 192 " semi-graphics " modes are also possible, though their imbalanced resolution and programming difficulty ( they are not accessible via BASIC ) meant they were not often utilised.
* An introduction to BASIC programming using the DRAGON 32 micro computer
GW-BASIC was a dialect of the programming language BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq.
Like other early microcomputer versions of BASIC, GW-BASIC lacked many of the structures needed for structured programming such as local variables, and GW-BASIC programs executed relatively slowly, because it was an interpreted programming language.
As a result, Mattel Electronics set up a competing internal engineering team whose stated mission was to produce an inexpensive add-on called the BASIC Development System, or BDS, to be sold as an educational device to introduce kids to the concepts of computer programming.
Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.
Modern PLCs can be programmed in a variety of ways, from the relay-derived ladder logic to programming languages such as specially adapted dialects of BASIC and C. Another method is State Logic, a very high-level programming language designed to program PLCs based on state transition diagrams.
High-level programming languages that originally lacked programming structures, such as FORTRAN, COBOL, and BASIC, now have them.
SNOBOL rivals APL for its distinctiveness in format and programming style, both being radically unlike more " standard " procedural languages such as BASIC, Fortran, or C.
True BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC the original BASIC invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

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As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.
To simplify animation of sprites, AMOS included the AMOS Animation Language ( AMAL ), a compiled sprite scripting language which runs independently of the main AMOS BASIC program.
Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.
The presence of an easy-to-learn language such as BASIC on these early personal computers allowed small business owners to develop their own custom application software, leading to widespread use of these computers in businesses that previously did not have access to computing technology.
The original BASIC language was designed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
Initially, BASIC concentrated on supporting straightforward mathematical work, with matrix arithmetic support from its initial implementation as a batch language and full string functionality being added by 1965.
As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.
The BASIC language was also central to the HP Time-Shared BASIC system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Pick operating system.
How to design and implement a stripped-down version of an interpreter for the BASIC language was covered in articles by Allison in the first three quarterly issues of the People's Computer Company newsletter published in 1975 and implementations with source code published in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics & Orthodontia: Running Light without Overbyte.

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The can be used in Applesoft BASIC as a shortcut for " PRINT ", though spelling out the word is not only acceptable but canonical Applesoft converted "?
* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command analogous to the INPUT $ function did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).
* Chinese BASIC a Chinese-localized version of Applesoft BASIC
* Alvyn Basic An attempt to recreate an open source multiplatform BASIC interpreter, syntax-compatible with AMOS Professional.
Initially based on Dartmouth BASIC 7 otherwise known as ANSI BASIC TrueBASIC implemented a number of new features over GW-BASIC, and allowed the user a redefinable 16-color, 640 × 480 pixel backdrop for program editing.
While the successor ZX81 used a semi-custom chip ( a ULA or Uncommitted Logic Array ), this merely combined the functions of the earlier hardware onto a single chip the hardware and system programs ( except the BASIC versions ) were very similar, with the only significant difference being the NMI-generator necessary for slow mode in the ZX81.
Much to Commodore's annoyance MetaComCo also worked with Atari to produce the BASIC that was initially provided with the Atari ST ST BASIC.
" The hard part was loading the BASIC from cassette tape a 15-minute ordeal.
* Thomas DeFanti, Jay Fenton and Nola Donato, " BASIC Zgrass a sophisticated graphics language for the Bally Home Library Computer ", Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 12 Issue 3 ( August 1978 ), pp. 33 – 37
For example, if the DOS hooks into the BASIC CLI stopped functioning, DOS could be reinitialized by calling location $ 03D0 ( 976 ) hence the traditional " 3D0G " command to return to BASIC from the System Monitor.

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For example, BASIC on the early microcontrollers Intel 8052 ; BASIC and FORTH on the Zilog Z8 as well as some modern devices.
For instance, some implementations of BASIC compile and then execute the source a line at a time.
For example, to plot X * X in HP 9830 BASIC, the program would be
For example, in BASIC, names a string and names an integer.
For example, in BASIC:
Liberty BASIC has been used in examples of code for various guides and references about programming in Windows, including " Beginning Programming For Dummies ", by Wallace Wang.
For example, ( from the Liberty BASIC Help File ):
For instance, the command would be illegal in BASIC, but in Zgrass this would print, the 1 being the value returned by second, meaning " I successfully output the string ' 10 '".
For instance, defines a string ( no need for a $ as in BASIC ) containing a snippet of Zgrass code.
For instance most BASICs only allow to be used in immediate mode, while Atari BASIC also allows it to be used inside a program.
For example, in C, strings are a composite but built-in data type, whereas in modern dialects of BASIC and in JavaScript, they are assimilated to a primitive data type that is both basic and built-in.
For example, in Commodore BASIC, you might find software not unlike the following:
For professionals who didn't have a problem with BASIC, a number of well-established software tool vendors such as Microsoft and Borland were actively promoting new " visual " programming systems such as Visual Basic.
For the Amstrad PCW, introduced in 1985, Locomotive produced the LocoScript word processor and Mallard BASIC, and also wrote the PCW's User Guide.
For example, a CP / M programmer might use a function to allow BASIC to switch the console device to the serial port, if the system BIOS supported this.
For more complex operations, MBASIC allowed user-defined functions that could be called from a BASIC program.
BASIC 8 ( or BASIC 8. 0 ) " The Enhanced Graphics System For The C128 " developed by Walrusoft of Gainesville, Florida and published in 1986 by Patech Software of Somerset, New Jersey, USA, was an extension of Commodore's BASIC 7. 0 for the C128 home / personal computer.
For example the Casio PB-2000 could be programmed in Assembly, BASIC, C, and Lisp.
For example an alternative entry point in Apple 1 BASIC would keep the BASIC program, useful when the reset button was accidentally pushed.

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