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BASIC

Est. 1964
CreatorJohn Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz
ParadigmProcedural • Imperative

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC was designed to make programming accessible to non-scientists and was many programmers' first language.

Hello World
110 PRINT "Hello, World!"
220 END