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‎External links: +Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

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original hardware

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Fixed spelling of "Altair"

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Typo fix: laguages -> languages

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‎Popular versions: No need for URL versions to reference article sections

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‎Procedural Versions: fixed order

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‎Popular versions

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‎Popular versions: fixed links and capitalization

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	* John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz, ''Back to BASIC: The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language'', Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1985		* John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz, ''Back to BASIC: The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language'', Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1985
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		+	==External links==
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		+	* [https://www.wired.com/story/back-to-basic-the-most-consequential-programming-language/ Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing]

	[[Category: Languages]]		[[Category: Languages]]

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 BASIC is the "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" [[programming language]], created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College for pedagogical use, and first introduced in 1964.
-That original version was an [[interpreter]] which ran under a [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]] on a small [[mainframe]]. It was initally developed on a [[GE-235]] (a GE-235 combined with a [[Datanet-30]] [[front end]] was designated a 'GE-265').The [[Dartmouth Time Sharing System]], where BASIC was greatly improved, ran on the later [[GE-635]].
+That original version was an [[interpreter]] which ran under a [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]] on a small [[mainframe]]. It was initally developed on a [[GE-235]] (a GE-235 combined with a [[Datanet-30]] [[front end]], the configuration used by the original system, was designated a 'GE-265'). The [[Dartmouth Time Sharing System]], where BASIC was greatly improved, ran on the later [[GE-635]].
 It later became popular on [[minicomputer]]s, in exactly the same usage mode. Since it was very simple for users to understand, many [[microcomputer]]s from the 1970's and 1980's would include BASIC as a feature.

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-BASIC is the "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" [[programming language]], created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College for pedagogical use, and first introduced in 1964. That original version was an [[interpreter]] which ran under a [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]] on a small [[mainframe]].
+BASIC is the "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" [[programming language]], created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College for pedagogical use, and first introduced in 1964.
 It later became popular on [[minicomputer]]s, in exactly the same usage mode. Since it was very simple for users to understand, many [[microcomputer]]s from the 1970's and 1980's would include BASIC as a feature.
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-[[Category:Languages]]
+==Further reading==

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 *[[HP BASIC]] (1969)
-*[[Altar BASIC]] (1978)
+*[[Altair BASIC]] (1978)
 *[[Integer BASIC]] (1977)

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 == Popular versions ==
-Just a quick grouping of popular BASIC programming laguages
+Just a quick grouping of popular BASIC programming languages
 *[[HP BASIC]] (1969)

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 *[[BBC BASIC]] (1981)
-*[http://gunkies.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC#IBM_Cassette_BASIC Cassette BASIC] (1981)
+*[[Microsoft BASIC#IBM Cassette BASIC|Cassette BASIC]] (1981)
-*[http://gunkies.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC#IBM_Advanced_BASIC BASICA] (1981)
+*[[Microsoft BASIC#IBM Advanced BASIC|BASICA]] (1981)
-*[http://gunkies.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC#GW-BASIC GWBASIC] (1988)
+*[[Microsoft BASIC#GW-BASIC|GWBASIC]] (1988)
-*[http://gunkies.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC#Quick_Basic Quick_BASIC] (1990)
+*[[Microsoft BASIC#Quick Basic|Quick BASIC]] (1990)
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 == Procedural Versions ==
 With Quick Basic, programs no longer needed line numbers, and the language was able to use the medium & large memory models with later versions.  Quick Basic was also included in MS-DOS 5.0 replacing the older GWBasic.
 <pre>
 PRINT "HELLO WORLD."
 </pre>
 == Popular versions ==

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 *[[BBC BASIC]] (1981)
-*[[Casette BASIC]] (1981)
+*[[Cassette BASIC]] (1981)
 *[[Basica]] (1981)
 *[[GWBasic]] (1988)