Today I was in Barnes & Noble trying to decide on a basic French language course my family can follow this summer to prepare for the autumn trip. They had Rosetta Stone, Pimsleur, and Living Language.

Almost all the University's elementary language courses will be wide open to pass-fail students next fall. The Germanic and Romance Language Departments voted at separate meetings this week not to ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

I'd like to take a brief moment to introduce you to a small project at Microsoft that has received very little press: Small Basic. Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...

The history of the program language BASIC, 50 years since its birth, and its spirit 1964 (Showa 39) May 1st Is one of the programming languages BASIC Was the first day to execute the order in the ...

Back in the early 1960s, programming for computers was a job that was just for computer scientists. That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created ...