BASIC has its roots in academics, where it was intended to be an easy to use programming language for every student, even those outside the traditional STEM fields.

A RAPIDLY growing Irish-medium post-primary school hopes to help tackle a shortage of subject specialists by appointing staff who have basic language skills.

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

Han Suk Bae, Li Yin, R. Malatesha Joshi, Knowledge about basic language constructs among teachers of English as a Foreign Language in China and South Korea, Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 69, No. 1, Special ...

BBC Basic is still a fairly remarkable language, all these years later. It had 32-bit integers, arbitrary-length variable names, and was remarkably fast.