His programs were rife with programming techniques deeply tied to the TRS-80’s particular software and hardware, and in a quest for more speed than Microsoft BASIC was theoretically capable of ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ...

More than that, being in BASIC meant that anyone of any age could program it. I kept about 50 chronological folders of papers throughout all my BASIC design work. Each one was labelled GAME BASIC.