Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is a coding language that controls how a website is structured. HTML forms the backbone of the biggest websites on the internet, and is a basic part ...

HTML is not a programming language because it fails to meet several functional criteria. Nevertheless, HTML coding is valuable beyond that pedantic debate.

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.