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12/16/09 08:17
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 		 #171649 - BASIC - Acronym
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Richard Erlacher said:
BASIC (Beginners' Algorithmic Symbolic Instruction Code)

The 'A' actually stands for "All-purpose"

See an original Dartmouth College Manual here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartm..._Oct64.pdf



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BASCOM help            01/01/70 00:00      
   Debounced key?            01/01/70 00:00      
      problem mostly solved            01/01/70 00:00      
   Learn the architecture, hardware, and instruction set            01/01/70 00:00      
      BASIC - Acronym            01/01/70 00:00      
         depends on whom you ask, I guess            01/01/70 00:00      
            "all-purpose" isn't a new definition            01/01/70 00:00      
               What's in a name?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Well, I never found it to be particularly "algorithmic"            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Indeed!            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Relic of the GOTO mayhem of original BASIC            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Wasn't that the order of the day back then?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              That wasn't its intent ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 possible to write spaghetti code in Pascal or in 'C'            01/01/70 00:00      
            From the horse's mouth!            01/01/70 00:00      
            A clear case of PCMCIA            01/01/70 00:00      
      Basics - in the "foundational" sense            01/01/70 00:00      
         Other programming languages are available            01/01/70 00:00      
         programming languages            01/01/70 00:00      
            Assembler            01/01/70 00:00      
            Focus!            01/01/70 00:00      
            How about MIDE-51?            01/01/70 00:00      
      thanks            01/01/70 00:00      
   Why is that "bad"?            01/01/70 00:00      
      That's not bad :-)            01/01/70 00:00      
         Not necessarily true            01/01/70 00:00      

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