misc.

• Hackaday / Ask Hackaday: Should We Teach BASIC?
• JohnBlood/awesome-basic A curated list of awesome BASIC dialects, IDEs, and tutorials
• r/learnprogramming / Modern BASIC IDE?

Lines

• r/c64 / A historical question: why does BASIC have line numbers in the first place?
• Stack Overflow / programming languages - Why BASIC had numbered lines?
• Software Engineering Stack Exchange / language design - Why did BASIC use line numbers?
• Quora
  • Is there any real reason that basic programs often start at line number 10?
  • Why do you want to use line numbers that increment by 10 in BASIC?

History

• ZDNET / BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse
• Языку программирования BASIC исполнилось 60 лет
• Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft by Bill Gates
  • LinkedIn
  • The Verge / Here’s the original source code for Microsoft’s very first product Apr 4, 2025
  • Хабр
    • Билл Гейтс отмечает 50-летие Microsoft, выпустив исходный код Altair BASIC 3 апр 2025
    • Энтузиаст решил вручную набрать исходный текст интерпретатора Altair BASIC с открытой копии распечатки кода Билла Гейтса 7 апр 2025

Wiki

• Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, and an integrated development environment that accompanies it.

People

• Хабр / Ушёл из жизни один из разработчиков BASIC и пионер компьютерных технологий Томас Е. Курц 16 ноя 2024