But writing Windows code was really really hard. Then in the 80s along came Microsoft Windows with a GUI and mouse events and bitmapped graphics. And after all those minions learned to program by writing silly games, many turned their attention to serious business problems and wrote more code. And lo and behold, the masses took to BASIC like my Border Collie takes to leftovers. All those cute little home computers, like the Apple II and the Commodore 64-and even the original IBM PC-came with BASIC. If BASIC were a pop song, it would be “I want to hold your hand.”īut it was popular.If BASIC were a US President, it would be in Lyndon Johnson’s grave.
In 2014 Dartmouth celebrated the 50th anniversary of the creation of BASIC: At the time, the existing languages were either extremely low-level or, like COBOL, too ugly to look at. Follow John Browne on a brief history of Visual Basic and learn how to convert VB code to C# easily.īASIC as a programming language dates back to 1964 when Dartmouth professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz decided to create a very, well, “basic” programming language to teach students how to program.
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