BASIC

dialects

CyanIIde Applesoft Interpreter (paleotronic.com) This is an Applesoft BASIC editor that extracts and updates code into a live Apple II VM. You can load examples through the dropdowns at the top-right of the screen. The CodeMirror-based editor separates out ‘stacked’ BASIC lines to make them easier to read.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Edsger W. Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (18 June 1975)

And should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify thy hand with the blow… John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Statues, Homily I

BASIC (Wikipedia) BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn.