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 in a ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

The seminal programming language got its start in a college research center in 1964, ended up defining home computer ownership in the late 1970s and 1980s, and has largely fallen out of use since.

Python has that operator ( / is floating point, // is integer division), and it's sometimes very useful. And the % remainder operator is super useful for working with modulo math. I have no idea how ...

Before pushing back on what seemingly falls into the unthinkable category, check out the reasons why Lou Frenzel is saying that BASIC deserves another look. I must be kidding, right? No, I’m not. I’m ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...