The BASIC Programming Language

	BASIC
Name:	BASIC & GW-BASIC
Created:	1964
By:	John George Kemeny & Tom Kurtz
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Acronym:	Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Language type:	block-structured
Extensions:	.bas .bld .mak .
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Note:	BASIC is a system developed at Dartmouth College in 1964 under the directory of J. Kemeny and T. Kurtz. It was implemented for the G.E.225. It was meant to be a very simple language to learn and also one that would be easy to translate.