True BASIC

The first BASIC was developed in 1963 by Professors Thomas E. Kurtz and John G. Kemeny at Dartmouth College (USA ). Their goal was to bring their students working on computers in more detail and to develop an easier -to-learn alternative to the much more powerful programming languages ​​ALGOL and FORTRAN. On 1 May 1964, the first BASIC program was run on a mainframe computer from the General Electric 225.

The reduced functional scope and ease of learning of BASIC made ​​it ideally suited for implementation on home and personal computers. However, the economic success also spawned numerous variations and dialects that were not compatible with the understanding of a common language. This was probably. Having a reason why the two developers brought to the language definition itself two decades later (1983 ) the true BASIC called True BASIC as a development tool on the market

True BASIC plays today while at professional developers, as well as for hobby programming not matter so much more, but is still further developed and offered with extensive libraries together with additional programs. These also exist Converter for BASIC and FORTRAN source code to True Basic. Especially in universities and schools in the U.S. comes True BASIC increasingly used.