BASIC to Visual Basic
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BASIC — the Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, developed in 1971 — carried easy-to-learn syntax with Fortran roots, and its Visual Basic variation powered much personal-computer development.
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A generation's first programs computed averages in a language built to be learnable.
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