The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

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The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...

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 ...

The language now stands at number 5 compared to being at number 7 last year. Visual Basic is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language.

According to Coding Dojo's annual Top Programming Languages report, PHP hit an all-time low. Python continues to dominate the top position.

The programming languages that are in highest demand, from Google's Go to Python to Apple Swift and PHP.

While the most used programming languages move ahead of their competition, there is still room for new options for developers.

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...