BASIC

BASIC, short for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a programming language often accused of setting back the cause of programming further than anything else in the history of computing before Clippy...

See Also

BASIC in Tcl

Opinion

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
- Edsger Dijkstra