Back in the CPM/CPM86 days a popular business basic was CBasic/Cbasic86. I did a lot of work for small businesses in those basics. These days I use VB for Windows/SQL work when necessary. Commodore 64 ...

I must be kidding, right? No, I’m not. I’m just suggesting that we take another look at the old programming language known as BASIC. The language has a great deal going for it, particularly that it’s ...

When I started college, design of the Intel 4004 was underway. The C programming language and UNIX operating system were being developed (unbeknownst to me). I did most of my programming in BASIC on ...