Basic Programming.

Basic has a rocky history. The first Basic program was created in 1964. It was created to teach the basics of programming. The name was a acroyn that stood for Begginner's All-Purpose Instruction Code. I didn't understand what it meant at first, now I do. In the 70's, two people named Bill Gates and Paul Allen got involved and worked in MITS to develop a version of basic for the Altair pc. DOS it was called, it can be execute in two ways, intercepted or compiled. Microsoft made Quickbasic as the next step of basic. It was okay. But it was too slow in Comparison to the professional languages on the market. Quickbasic was combined with with and became known as the next step.