This is an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects — interpreted and

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variants of the

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. Each dialect's platform(s), i.e., the

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models and

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s, are given in parentheses along with any other significant information.

Dialects

0–9

; 1771-DB BASIC :

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PLC industrial controller BASIC module;

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

BASIC-52 extended with PLC-specific calls. ; 64K BASIC : Cross-platform, interactive,

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interpreter for microcomputer BASIC.

A

; ABasiC ''(

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)'' : Relatively limited. Initially provided with Amiga computers by MetaComCo. ; ABC BASIC : designed for the ''

ABC 80 The ABC 80 (Advanced BASIC Computer 80) was a personal computer engineered by the Swedish corporation Dataindustrier AB (DIAB) and manufactured by Luxor in Motala, Sweden in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was introduced on the market in August ...

'' and ''

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'' line of computers designed by

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and manufactured by

Luxor AB Luxor was a Swedish home electronics and computer manufacturer located in Motala, established in 1923 and acquired by Nokia in 1985. The brand name is now owned by Turkish company Vestel and is used for televisions sold in the Swedish market. ...

(including ''ABC 802'', ''ABC 806'' etc.). ;

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''(

)'' : A Compiler for Everyone —

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, AmigaBASIC compatible, has extra features, some of which exploit the Amiga's hardware and operating system. ;Advan BASIC : For the Atari home computer, disk based, containing BASIC, compiler, screen design and utilities. Released to public domain July, 2006 ;

Advanced BASIC The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpre ...

: (a.k.a. BASIC Advanced, Advanced BASIC) (DOS on the PC) by Microsoft. Available in ROM on IBM PCs. Later disk based versions for IBM PC DOS. ;

AlphaBasic AlphaBASIC is a computer programming language created by Alpha Microsystems in 1976. The language was written by Alpha Microsystems employees Paul Edelstein, Dick Wilcox and Bob Courier.Altair BASIC Altair BASIC is a discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 and subsequent S-100 bus computers. It was Microsoft's first product (as Micro-Soft), distributed by MITS under a contract. Altair BASI ...

: (a.k.a. ''MITS 4K BASIC'', ''MITS 8K BASIC'', ''Altair Disk Extended BASIC'') ''(

Altair 8800 The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics and was sold by mail order through advertiseme ...

, S-100)'' — Microsoft's first product ; Altair Disk Extended BASIC : See

Altair BASIC Altair BASIC is a discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 and subsequent S-100 bus computers. It was Microsoft's first product (as Micro-Soft), distributed by MITS under a contract. Altair BASI ...

; Amiga BASIC ''(

)'' : Somewhat easier than ABasiC, see

MS BASIC for Macintosh MS BASIC for Macintosh was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh. It was one of the first Microsoft BASIC variants to have optional line numbering, predating QuickBASIC. It was provided in two versions, one with standard Floating point, binary ...

. ; AmiBlitz ''(

)'' : Open-source version of

Blitz BASIC Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. Th ...

. ;

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''(

)'' : For the

, made for

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. A descendant of

STOS BASIC STOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Atari ST personal computer. It was designed for creating games, but the set of high-level graphics and sound commands it offers is suitable for developing multimedia software with ...

on the

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. Later derivatives included ''AMOS Professional'' (a.k.a. ''AMOS Pro'') and '' Easy AMOS''.
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: Standard for the programming language Minimal BASIC X3.60-1978, a 1978 standard for minimal features, and X3.113-1987, the full BASIC standard; rarely implemented fully. ;

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(

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) : See:

Integer BASIC Integer BASIC is a BASIC interpreter written by Steve Wozniak for the Apple I and Apple II computers. Originally available on cassette for the Apple I in 1976, then included in ROM on the Apple II from its release in 1977, it was the first ve ...

; Apple Business BASIC ''(

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)'' : ;

Applesoft BASIC Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of Microsoft BASIC, developed by Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland, supplied with the Apple II series of computers. It supersedes Integer BASIC and is the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original ...

''( Apple II series)'' : Based on the same

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

code that

Commodore BASIC Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET of 1977 to the C128 of 1985. The core is based on 6502 M ...

was based on. Standard on the

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/ Apple II Europlus and all later models of the Apple II family. ; ARMbasic : BASIC compiler for ARM processors, ported to a number of popular ARM development PCBs. ; APU BASIC : version of SORD CBASIC for the M23 with arithmetic processor ; Aribas : interactive interpreter for big integer arithmetic and multi-precision floating point arithmetic with a Pascal/Modula-like syntax. It has several builtin functions for algorithmic number theory like gcd, Jacobi symbol, Rabin probabilistic prime test, factorization algorithms (Pollard rho, elliptic curve, continued fraction, quadratic sieve), etc. ; ASIC : ''(

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on the PC)'' ; Assembler :PICAXE chip language ; Atari 2600 Basic Programming : ''(

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video game console)''
SuperCharger Disk BASIC
''(

video game console)'' : StarPath SuperCharger cartridge plus disk-based extensions. ;

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''(

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)'' : The standard cartridge-based interpreter for the Atari 400/800 personal computers and successors. On later machines, such as the Atari 800XL, this was built into the ROM. ;

Atari Microsoft BASIC The ''Atari Microsoft BASIC'' and ''Atari Microsoft BASIC II'' variants of the MOS 6502, 6502-version of Microsoft BASIC Porting, ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 8-bit machines. The first version, released 1981, required 32 KB of rand ...

''(

)'' : ROM cartridge plus disk-based extensions. ;

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: interpreter and compiler for the

AT&T UNIX PC The AT&T UNIX PC is a Unix desktop computer originally developed by Convergent Technologies (later acquired by Unisys), and marketed by AT&T Information Systems in the mid- to late-1980s. The system was codenamed "Safari 4" and is also known as th ...

(3B1). ; AttoBasic : ROM-resident interpreter, executes from on-chip RAM ''(

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)'' ; Atom BASIC ''(

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)'' : ;

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''(

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)'' : automates other programs, e.g. with simulated mouse clicks. Interpreted. GUI. Creates EXEs.

B

; B32 Business Basic : ''( Data General Eclipse MV,

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)'' ;

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: ''(

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...

Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...

)'' — Basic to C converter implemented both in BaCon(for good performance) and shell script(for bootstrapping). ; BAIT : short for BASIC (Almost) InTerpreter was an experimental BASIC interpreter written in Atari (8-bit) BASIC for Compute! Magazine by Bill Wilkinson. ;

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: ''(

)'' — Interpreter for the classic BASIC dialect ; Bas7 : ''(

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)'' A BASIC interpreter, written in

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, which is compatible to

GW-BASIC GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA. Functionally identical to BASICA, its BASIC interpreter is a fully self-contained executable and does not need the Cassette BASIC ROM found in the or ...

and other old BASIC dialects ; Banna Basic : ''(

)'' — putatively under development by Leodescal Softwares; the first officially launched version is supposed to produce stand-alone executables ; BASCOM : Compilers for the 8051 and AVR chips ; Basic+ : programming language for OpenInsight ; BASIC 2.0 : (see

) ;

BASIC 7.0 Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET of 1977 to the C128 of 1985. The core is based on 6502 ...

: (see

) ; BASIC A+ : ''(

)'' — An extended BASIC for the

, by

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; BASIC Advanced : See '' IBM BASICA'' ; BASIC Programming : ( Atari CX-2620) was a simple attempt of the BASIC language for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System ; BASIC XE : ''(

)'' — An enhanced version of BASIC XL, by

;

BASIC XL Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was a company that produced disk operating systems, programming languages with integrated development environments, and applications primarily for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. OSS was best known f ...

: ''(

)'' — Improved BASIC for the

, by

; Basic4GL : Fast interpreter meant for OpenGL graphical programming, especially games ; BASIC-11 : ''( DEC

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RSX-11 RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation. In widespread use through the late 1970s and early 1980s, RSX-11 was influential in the development of later ...

)'' ; Basic-256 : ''(

)'' — BASIC IDE with text and graphics output, written to introduce children to programming. Originally known as KidBASIC. ; BASIC-52 : BASIC for the Intel 8052 microcontroller chip ; BASIC-68K : structured BASIC for the SORD M68/M68MX computers running in CP/M-68K mode ; BASIC-E : (a.k.a. ''submarine BASIC'') ''(

CP/M CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...

)'' ; BASIC-II : structured BASIC for 8-bit SORD computers ; BASIC Plus 2 : ''(DEC

RSTS/E RSTS () is a multi-user time-sharing operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Hewlett-Packard) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers. The first version of RSTS (RSTS-11, Version 1) was implemented in 1 ...

)'' ;

BASIC-PLUS BASIC-PLUS is an extended dialect of the BASIC programming language that was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use on its RSTS/E time-sharing operating system for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers in the early 1970s thr ...

: ''(DEC

) '' ; BASIC/UX : HP BASIC for HP-UX, version of Rocky Mountain BASIC ; BASIC/WS : HP BASIC Workstation ; BASIC/Z : ''(CP/M, MDOS)'' ;

BASIC09 BASIC09 is a structured BASIC programming language dialect developed by Microware on behalf of Motorola for the then-new Motorola 6809 CPU and released in February 1980. It is primarily used with the OS-9 operating system, released in 1979. Microwa ...

: ''(

OS-9 OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. It was purchased by Radisys Corp in 2001, and ...

and OS-9 68K on

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and 68K

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, respectively)'' ;

BASICA The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpre ...

: (a.k.a. ''BASIC Advanced'', ''Advanced BASIC'') ''(

on the PC)'' by

. Available in

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s. Later disk based versions for

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. ;

BASICODE BASICODE was a computer project intended to create a unified standard for the BASIC programming language. BASIC was available on many popular home computers, but there were countless variants that were mostly computer compatibility, incompatible w ...

: ''(Many 8-bit home computers, including

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)'' A subset common to many platform-specific BASICs, enabling interoperability. ; Basic For Qt : ''(

and

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)'' — Platform independent BASIC. Object-oriented

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-like Basic variant. Based on Qt. (previously, KBASIC) ; BasiEgaXorz : ''(

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)'' — for the

; batari BASIC : version primarily used for homebrew Atari 2600 development. ;

BBC BASIC BBC BASIC is a version of the BASIC programming language released in 1981 as the native programming language for the BBC Micro home/personal computer, providing a standardized language for a UK computer literacy project of the BBC. It was wr ...

: Originally for the

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BBC Micro The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers in the 1980s for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. Designed with an emphas ...

, but has since been ported to

RISC OS RISC OS is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England. First released in 1987, it was designed to run on the ARM chipset, which Acorn had designed concurrently for use in its new line of Archim ...

Tiki 100 Tiki-100 was a desktop home/personal computer manufactured by Tiki Data of Oslo, Norway. The computer was launched in the spring of 1984 under the original name Kontiki-100, and was first and foremost intended for the emerging educational sector ...

Cambridge Z88 The Cambridge Computer Z88 is a Zilog Z80-based portable computer released in 1987 by Cambridge Computer, the company formed for such purpose by Clive Sinclair. It was approximately A4 paper sized and lightweight at , running on four AA batter ...

Amstrad NC100 The Amstrad NC100 Notepad was an A4-size, portable Z80-based computer, released by Amstrad in 1992. It featured 64 KB of RAM, the Protext word processor, various organiser-like facilities (diary, address book and time manager), a simple calcul ...

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and many others. A

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clone of BBC BASIC named Brandy written in portable C is also available (

, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD,

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). Also a port made for the

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by Aztec Software, written by Julian Gardner. ; Bazic '86 : See ''

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'' ; BBx : ''(

)'' — Cross-platform program development language derived from

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. ;

BCX BCX is a free, open source BASIC to C/C++ computer language translator started by Kevin Diggins in 1999. The current official BCX website https://BcxBasicCoders.com came online in October 2019, following several years of non-development. Maintenanc ...

: small command line tool that inputs a BCX BASIC source code file and outputs a 'C' source code file which can be compiled with many C or C++ compilers. ;

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: ; Beta BASIC : BASIC toolkit that extended

Sinclair BASIC Sinclair BASIC is a dialect of the programming language BASIC used in the 8-bit home computers from Sinclair Research and Timex Sinclair. The Sinclair BASIC interpreter was made by Nine Tiles Networks Ltd. History Sinclair BASIC was orig ...

. ; BetterBASIC : BASIC implementation by

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, first available in the early 1980s. It was later maintained by Michael Poremski. ; BI-280 : Business BASIC interpreter (

MP/M MP/M (Multi-Programming Monitor Control Program) is a discontinued multi-user version of the CP/M operating system, created by Digital Research developer Tom Rolander in 1979. It allowed multiple users to connect to a single computer, each u ...

) by Control C Corporation, Beaverton, Oregon. ;

Blitz3D Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. T ...

: ''(

)'' Fast compiler made for 3D

, with

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7 support. ;

: ''(

)'' — Fast compiler meant for

. Windows version with

support. Discontinued, replaced by BlitzPlus. ; BlitzMax : ''(

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)'' — Fast and compact object-oriented compiler meant for several tasks, most notably

Game programming Game programming, a subset of game development, is the software development of video games. Game programming requires substantial skill in software engineering and computer programming in a given language, as well as specialization in one or mor ...

with

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...

and

support (DirectX support is

only). ; BlitzPlus : ''(

)'' Fast compiler made for 2D game programming and WinAPI event based interpreted programming. Supports both

and

. ; Blunt Axe Basic : (a.k.a. ''BXBASM'') ''(Win32, Linux)'' Bxbasic is presented as a programming tutorial, to develop and construct a Console Mode Scripting Engine and Byte Code Compiler. ;

BS Basic BS, B.S., Bs or bs may refer to: Arts and entertainment *BS-, a prefix for all games broadcast for the Satellaview modem via the Japanese Broadcasting Satellite system * "B.S." (song), a song by Jhené Aiko from the album ''Chilombo'' *Team BS, ...

:Used on the Bandai RX-78 computer ; Bsisith : Hebrew dialect. ; BT-Basic : Board Test Basic, used by HP (later

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, then

Keysight Keysight Technologies, or Keysight, is an American company that manufactures electronics test and measurement equipment and software. The name is a blend of ''key'' and ''insight''. The company was formed as a spin-off of Agilent Technologies, wh ...

) to develop and run test programs in an in-circuit test environment ;

BURP Burping (also called belching and eructation) is the release of gas from the upper digestive tract (esophagus and stomach) of animals through the mouth. It is usually audible. In humans, burping can be caused by normal eating processes, or as ...

: Basic Using Reverse Polish, used by the very early PSI Comp 80 "scientific computer", as published in the British radio enthusiasts magazine

Wireless World ''Electronics World'' (''Wireless World'', founded in 1913, and in September 1984 renamed ''Electronics & Wireless World'') is a technical magazine in electronics and RF engineering aimed at professional design engineers. It is produced monthly in ...

;

: name given collectively to BASIC variants which were specialized for business use on minicomputers in the 1970s. ; bwBASIC : See ''Bywater BASIC'' ; BWBASIC : " ByteWide BASIC", a stand-alone

Z-80 The Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Zilog as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was conceived by Federico Faggin in late 1974 and developed by him and his 11 employees starting in early 1975. The first working samples we ...

bitwise port of

Tiny BASIC Tiny BASIC is a family of Programming language#Dialects, flavors and implementations, dialects of the BASIC programming language that can fit into 4 or fewer kilobyte, KBs of random-access memory, memory. Tiny BASIC was designed in response to th ...

- co developed by Pro-Log Corporation and ByteWide Systems, Australia. Intended for control applications. ; BXBASM : See ''Blunt_Ane_Basic'' ; Bywater BASIC : (a.k.a. ''bwBASIC'') — an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

interpreter for

and

POSIX The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines both the system- and user-level application programming interf ...

. Bwbasic contains only a small portion of the ANSI BASIC commands. Its main advantage is that one can also use shell commands in programs, an unusual feature in any BASIC implementation. It could theoretically be used as the main shell on a DOS or POSIX system, with some advantages.

C

; CA-Realizer : dialect similar to VisualBasic by Computer Associates, last version 3.0, no longer under development/supported ; Caché Basic : One of the two scripting languages in the '' Caché''

Database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...

; CARDBASIC : version of BASIC operated by cards available in Dartmouth when that language was created and described in the original manual ; Casio BASIC : used in Casio calculators ;

Cassette BASIC The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpre ...

: An interpreter on IBM and IBM compatible PCs to which the machine will default if no operating system is detected. ;

CBASIC CBASIC is a compiled version of the BASIC programming language written for the CP/M operating system by Gordon Eubanks in 1976–1977. It is an enhanced version of BASIC-E. History BASIC-E was Eubank's master's thesis project. It was develop ...

''(CP/M, DOS)'' : BASIC-E successor. ;

: standard interpreter for 8-bit SORD computers (M23, M68 in Z80 mode, etc.), a.k.a. APU BASIC when the arithmetic processor is installed ; cbasPad Pro : See '' HotPaw Basic'' ; CBM BASIC : See ''

'' ; CellularBASIC :

Java ME Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for embedded and mobile devices (micro-controllers, sensors, gateways, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, TV set-top ...

on-phone mobile interpreter for Java-enabled handheld devices, mobiles, smartphones, and PDAs ;

Chinese BASIC Chinese BASIC () is the name given to several Chinese-localized versions of the BASIC programming language in the early 1980s. Versions At least two versions of Chinese BASIC were modified Applesoft BASIC that accepted Chinese commands and varia ...

: Several Chinese-translated BASIC languages developed in the early 1980s. ;

Chipmunk Basic Chipmunk Basic is a freeware interpreter for the BASIC programming language maintained by Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Macintosh and has been ported to Linux and Microsoft Windows. The "windowed" Macintosh versio ...

: ''(

Apple Macintosh The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and software en ...

, CLI ports for Win32, Linux)'' — copyrighted freeware ; CGIbasic : small and fast interpreter for web-scripting. ;

CipherLab CipherLab is a company that designs, manufactures and markets automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) products and systems. The company's mobile computers and barcode scanners are integrated into the networks of government and logistics ins ...

Basic : tool to develop application programs for CipherLab 8 Series Mobile Computers using BASIC programming language ; CocoaBasic : ''(

)'' — Object-oriented dialect for using the

Cocoa Cocoa may refer to: Chocolate * Chocolate * ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree * Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao'' * Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...

Framework ; CognosScript : ''( IBM Corporation

Cognos Cognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 1 ...

)'' Similar to Visual Basic, used in Cognos business intelligence applications. ;

Color BASIC Color BASIC is the implementation of Microsoft BASIC that is included in the Read-only memory, ROM of the Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computers manufactured between 1980 and 1991. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a hi ...

: ''( Tandy /

RadioShack RadioShack, formerly RadioShack Corporation, is an American retailer founded in 1921. At its peak in 1999, RadioShack operated over 8,000 worldwide stores named RadioShack or Tandy Electronics in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Austra ...

TRS-80 Color Computer The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo, is a line of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation. Despite sharing a name with the earlier TRS-80, the Color Co ...

)'' ;

: (a.k.a. ''CBM BASIC'') ''(Various computers in CBM's line of 8-bit computers)'' — Was integrated in the ROM of CBM's 8-bit computers. Built on an early version of 6502

Microsoft BASIC Microsoft BASIC is the foundation software product of the Microsoft company and evolved into a line of BASIC interpreters and compiler(s) adapted for many different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first ve ...

. There were several versions — the best-known was ''Commodore Basic V2'', as used in the

. ; Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS : DEC BASIC, renamed after DEC was acquired by Compaq. Now called

VSI BASIC for OpenVMS VSI BASIC for OpenVMS is the latest name for a dialect of the BASIC programming language created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and now owned by VMS Software Incorporated (VSI). It was originally developed as BASIC-PLUS in the 1970s for ...

. ; CoolBasic : ''(

)'' — A variant suited for

with

. :fi:Coolbasic ; CPX-Basic : ''(

)'' — An enhanced port of

running as a control panel inside Atari's XControl. ; Creative Basic : (Windows) ; Cubloc Basic : ''( Comfile Technologies)'' — Interpreter for the Cubloc controller ; (

Cybiko The Cybiko is a Russian handheld computer introduced in the United States by David Yang's company Cybiko Inc. as a retail test market in New York on April 2000, and rolled out nationwide in May 2000. It is designed for teens, featuring its own tw ...

) : Interpreter for the Cybiko Handheld Computer for Teens ; Cybiko B2C : ''(

)'' — A BASIC to C compiler for the Cybiko Handheld Computer for Teens ;

Cypress BASIC Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word ''cypress'' is derived from Old French ''cipres'', which was imported from Latin ''cypressus'', the ...

: (Windows) — a royalty-free VBA compatible scripting engine embedded, e.g., within HP's AssetCenter product for implementing customizations

D

; D3/Pick : See: ''Pick/BASIC'' for use on the

Pick Operating System The Pick Operating System (Pick System or Pick) is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing. It is named after one o ...

;

DAI BASIC Dai may refer to: Names * Dai (given name), a Welsh or Japanese masculine given name * Dai (surname) (戴), a Chinese surname Places and regimes * Dai Commandery, a commandery of the state of Zhao and in early imperial China * Dai County, in Xinz ...

: a very early BASIC interpreter for the

Intel 8080 The Intel 8080 (''"eighty-eighty"'') is the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel. It first appeared in April 1974 and is an extended and enhanced variant of the earlier 8008 design, although without binary compatibil ...

based

DAI Personal Computer The DAI personal computer is an early home computer from the Belgian company '' Data Applications International''. The DAI came to market in 1980. It provided many pioneering features such as high resolution color graphics, a maths co-processor, ...

that used java-like pre-compilation. ; DarkBASIC &

DarkBASIC Professional The Game Creators Ltd (TGC; formerly Dark Basic Software Limited) is a British software house based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which specialises in software for video game development, originally for the Microsoft Windows platform. ...

: ''(

)'' — Efficient compiler for

. ;

Dartmouth BASIC Dartmouth BASIC is the original version of the BASIC programming language. It was designed by two professors at Dartmouth College, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. With the underlying Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), it offered an inter ...

: the ''original'' BASIC version. It was a compiler. Later versions included MAT statements for matrix operations. See also ''True BASIC''. ;

Data General Business Basic Data General Business Basic was a BASIC interpreter (based on a version from MAI Basic Four) marketed by Data General for their Nova minicomputer in the 1970s, and later ported to the Data General Eclipse MV and AViiON computers. Most busines ...

: ''(

Data General Nova The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately sold tens of thousands of units. The first model, known simply as "Nova", was ...

and later DG minicomputers)'' ; Data/BASIC : See: ''Pick/BASIC'' for use on the

; Databasic : See: ''Pick/BASIC'' for use on the

; DBASIC : fast nonstandard BASIC for the Atari ST written entirely in machine language ; DEC BASIC : Formerly VAX BASIC; renamed after

VAX/VMS OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Customers using Ope ...

was ported to

Alpha Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ...

processors and renamed

OpenVMS OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Customers using Ope ...

. Now called

due to corporate acquisitions. ; Decimal BASIC : Japanese multi-platform Basic interpreter compatible almost 100% with ISO/IEC 10279:Full BASIC 1991 or later ; Dr. T's T-BASIC : ''(

)'' — A BASIC variant for the ST designed specifically to interface with a high-end MIDI sequencer. ; DragonBASIC : for

GBA The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2 ...

handheld video game; also useful for

Nintendo DS homebrew Homebrew, when applied to video games, refers to games produced by hobbyists for proprietary video game consoles which are not intended to be user-programmable. The official documentation is often only available to licensed developers, and the ...

. Dragon Basic is a sort of cross-compiler with IDE that runs on Microsoft Windows. ; D-Lib : for (

) is a

BASIC

compiler In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the ''source'' language) into another language (the ''target'' language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that ...

that creates

bytecode Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references (norma ...

executables.

E

; Easy AMOS : See ''AMOS BASIC'' ; Emergence Basic : ''(

)'' ; Envelop Basic : ''(

)'' —

3 clone. ; Envision Basic
Epson SPEL+
: ''(

)'' — SPEL+ is a BASIC-like programming language that runs in the Epson robot controllers. It supports multitasking, motion control, and I/O control. ; ESP8266 BASIC : ''( ESP8266 and NodeMCU) -'' An open-source basic interpreter specifically tailored for the internet of things. Self-hosting browser-based development environment. ; ethosBASIC : ''(

)'' — ethosBASIC is a new BASIC development system made to create

computer game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device to gener ...

s. ;

Extended Color BASIC Extended Color Basic is an update to the Color BASIC interpreter for the Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo, is a line of hom ...

: ''(

and

Dragon 32/64 The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers that were built in the 1980s. The Dragons are very similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer, and were produced for the European market by Dragon Data, Ltd., initially in Swansea, Wales before mov ...

)''

F

;

FaST Basic Fast or FAST may refer to: * Fast (noun), high speed or velocity * Fast (noun, verb), to practice fasting, abstaining from food and/or water for a certain period of time Acronyms and coded Computing and software * ''Faceted Application of Subje ...

: ''(

)'' ;

Famicom BASIC is a consumer product for programming on the Nintendo Family Computer, the Japanese equivalent to the Nintendo Entertainment System. ''Family BASIC'' was launched on June 21, 1984 to consumers in Japan by Nintendo, in cooperation with Hudson S ...

: ''(

Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redesigned version, was released in America ...

)'' — For the

. ; FBSL : ''(

WinE Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...

)'' — ''FREESTYLE Basic Script Language'' ;

FirST Basic First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

: ''(

)'' ;

FreeBASIC FreeBASIC is a free and open source multiplatform compiler and programming language based on BASIC licensed under the GNU GPL for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode MS-DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox. The Xbox version is no longer m ...

: ''(DOS (DPMI32), MS Windows and Linux)'' — An

(

) BASIC compiler, that employs a similar syntax to

QuickBASIC Microsoft QuickBASIC (also QB) is an Integrated Development Environment (or IDE) and compiler for the BASIC programming language that was developed by Microsoft. QuickBASIC runs mainly on DOS, though there was also a short-lived version for the c ...

's, with more advanced features like pointers and

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of pr ...

, it also supports a dialect specially designed to be compatible with QuickBASIC. ; FutureBASIC : ''(Mac OS)'' — Free compiled, procedural, provides access to Carbon API (Mac OS Toolbox), GUI and file system of System 6 to Mac OS X ; FUZE BASIC : ''(MS Windows and Linux)'' — Highly modernized adaptation of classic BASIC.

G

; Galaksija BASIC : ''( Galaksija)'' —

Firmware In computing, firmware is a specific class of computer software that provides the low-level control for a device's specific hardware. Firmware, such as the BIOS of a personal computer, may contain basic functions of a device, and may provide h ...

version for Galaksija home computer. ;

Gambas Gambas is the name of an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, as well as the integrated development environment that accompanies it. Designed to run on Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems, its name is a re ...

: ''(

Cygwin Cygwin ( ) is a POSIX-compatible programming and runtime environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Under Cygwin, source code designed for Unix-like operating systems may be compiled with minimal modification and executed. The Cygwin in ...

)'' — A

rapid application development Rapid application development (RAD), also called rapid application building (RAB), is both a general term for adaptive software development approaches, and the name for James Martin's method of rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to ...

environment for BASIC on

Benoît Minisini Benoît Minisini is a French programmer best known for programming the Gambas graphical development environment. Starting programming when he was twelve, he became interested in writing languages, compilers, assemblers, and interpreters. This int ...

. Similar approach as

. ; GamesBasic : Free

object-oriented Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of pro ...

BASIC variant meant for

. ; GBasic : ''(

on the PC)'' — Interpreter with many

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture ...

routines. ; GBasic : ''( on the ZVT PP 01)'' — Interpreter with many graphics routines, Made in Czechoslovakia 80's ; G-BASIC : version of SORD CBASIC with SORD Graphic Language extensions for the M23 with graphics board ; GeoBASIC : ''( Leica TPS 1000/1100 surveying stations)'' ; geoBASIC : ''(

)'' — For use with GEOS ;

GFA BASIC GFA BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language, by Frank Ostrowski. The name is derived from the company ("GFA Systemtechnik GmbH"), which distributed the software. In the mid-1980s to the 1990s it enjoyed popularity as an advanced BAS ...

: ''(Atari ST, Amiga, DOS, Windows)'' — Originally conceived on the

where it became one of the most popular BASICs for that platform (it almost became a standard language for the Atari ST). Was later

ported In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally desi ...

to the

and

. ;

GLBasic GLBasic is a commercial BASIC programming language that can compile to various platforms including Microsoft Windows, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and some handheld devices. The language is designed to be simple and intuitive. Overview GLBasic star ...

: ''(main target platforms:

, Apple iPhone,

Pocket PC A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs. The name was introduced by Microsoft in 2000 ...

. IDE environment: Windows)'' — optimized for games ; Gnome Basic : ''(

)'' — project to develop a

compatible clone for

Gnome A gnome is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characte ...

. During development, the project was discontinued. ; Graphics BASIC : ''(

)'' — extension to the original Commodore 64 BASIC V2. ; Great Cow BASIC : ''(Microchip PIC , AVR & LGT (Logic Green Technologies))'' — Open source compiler for 8-bit architecture PIC, AVR and LGT microcontrollers. ;

: ''(

and

)'' by

compatible; independent of IBM ROM routines. Came with versions of

MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few ope ...

before 5.0. Included

music macro language Music Macro Language (MML) is a music description language used in sequencing music on computer and video game systems. Background Early automatic music generation functions were used in arcade games, which used many computer sounds. An exampl ...

and advanced loops.

H

; HBasic : ''(

)'' — Object-oriented

IDE. HBasic based on Qt IDE and a BASIC dialect. Similar approach as

. ;

HiSoft Basic HiSoft Technology International Limited was a multinational information technology and business process outsourcing company headquartered in Dalian, China. Founded in 1996, HiSoft was listed on the NASDAQ public exchange in 2010. In November 2 ...

: ''(Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum)'' ; High Tech BASIC : Version of Rocky Mountain BASIC by TransEra ; HotBasic : ''(Win32, Linux)'' — Simple but powerful compiler, emits machine code. Supports GUI, console, CGI, and database programming. ; HotPaw Basic : (a.k.a. ''yBasic'', née ''cbasPad Pro'') ''(

Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provi ...

)'' — Interpreter with

GUI The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

and sound functions. ; HP BASIC : The original Version of Rocky Mountain BASIC ; HP Instrument BASIC : Another name for HP Rocky Mountain BASIC ; HRAST-BASIC : For HP-48G/G+/GX, HP-49G and HP-49G+/50G calculators. ; HP BASIC for OpenVMS : Originally VAX BASIC; renamed to DEC BASIC after VAX/VMS was ported from

VAX VAX (an acronym for Virtual Address eXtension) is a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century. The V ...

processors; renamed to Compaq BASIC after

Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to a 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced ...

acquired DEC; renamed to HP BASIC for OpenVMS name after HP acquired Compaq. Now known as

. ; HP Basic : version on the HP 39 and 40 programmable calculators. ;

HP Time-Shared BASIC HP Time-Shared BASIC (HP TSB) is a BASIC programming language interpreter for Hewlett-Packard's HP 2000 line of minicomputer-based time-sharing computer systems. TSB is historically notable as the platform that released the first public versio ...

: ''(

HP 2100 The HP 2100 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers that were produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. Tens of thousands of machines in the series were sold over its twenty-five year lifetime, making HP the fourth largest mi ...

line of

minicomputer A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller general purpose computers that developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, ...

s)'' ; HTBasic : Version of Rocky Mountain BASIC by TransEra ; Hummingbird Basic : The automation facility in Hummingbird Connectivity; it replaced

WinWrap Basic WinWrap Basic (WWB) by Polar Engineering, Inc. is a third-party macro language based on Visual Basic used with programmes of various types which its vendor touts as an alternative to ActiveX (e.g. VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, Rexx-based WSH eng ...

after version 4 ; HuBASIC : For the Samsung SPC-1000, Sharp MZ-700 and

Sharp X1 The , sometimes called the Sharp X1 or CZ-800C, is a series of home computers released by Sharp Corporation from 1982 to 1988. It is based on a Zilog Z80 CPU. The RGB display monitor for the X1 had a television tuner, and a computer screen co ...

, written in 1982 by

Hudson Soft was a Japanese video game company that released numerous games for video game consoles, home computers and mobile phones, mainly from the 1980s to the 2000s. It was headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo ...

in Japan.

I

; IBasic : ''(

)'' — With

Windows API The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. The name Windows API collectively refers to several different platform implementations th ...

and

support. ;

IBM Cassette BASIC The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpre ...

: ''( PC)'' — Built into the first

s. Ran independently of

and used

audio cassettes The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens ...

as a storage medium. ; IBM VS-BASIC : Mainframe hybrid compiler/interpreter implementation frequently used with such operating systems as McGill University's

MUSIC/SP ''MUSIC/SP (Multi-User System for Interactive Computing/System Product''; originally "McGill University System for Interactive Computing") was developed at McGill University in the 1970s from an early IBM time-sharing system called RAX ( Remo ...

. ; ICPL : ''(

Computervision Computervision, Inc. (CV) was an early pioneer in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/ CAM). Computervision was founded in 1969 by Marty Allen and Philippe Villers, and headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Its early ...

CADDS-2/VLSI)'' — Interpreter tied into an

integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

design

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...

. ; INFOBASIC : Used on Prime Computers, a variant of Pick BASIC for use on the

;

: ''( Apple II series)'' —

Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, inventor, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, with business partner Steve Jobs, he c ...

's own creation. Originally known simply as ''"Apple BASIC"''. For the BASICs available at the time, it was very fast and

memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, ...

-efficient. Only supported

integer An integer is the number zero (), a positive natural number (, , , etc.) or a negative integer with a minus sign (−1, −2, −3, etc.). The negative numbers are the additive inverses of the corresponding positive numbers. In the language ...

s. Came as standard on the

and original

Apple II The Apple II (stylized as ) is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak; Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple II's foam-m ...

; Initial Programming Language : ''(

)'' Uses dialog boxes for every command and directs essential message queue messages to predefined functions discarding the rest. Tries to keep to the spirit of simple home computer BASICs rather than a fully featured language like Visual Basic. ; Internet Basic : Written for use with the Comet system. Both were created by Signature Systems. ; IS-BASIC : The interpreter of the Enterprise 64 and 128 home computers, written by Intelligent Software Ltd. ; IWBasic : ''(

)'' A version of Basic that generates native machine code so no runtime libraries are needed. ; iziBasic : ''(

)'' Easy-to-use compiler that runs on Palm OS devices and emits stand-alone programs. Includes terminal mode and support for Palm OS

J

; Jabaco : simple object-oriented programming language to build applications/applets on the Java Framework. ; Just BASIC : restricted "free" version of Liberty BASIC'' (

only)'' ; JBasic : a "classic" implementation of BASIC written entirely in Java. ; JR-BASIC : used on the Matsushita JR series home computers ; jvmBasic : An implementation of BASIC which compiles to Java Bytecode

K

; Kool-Bee : See ''KoolB'' ; KoolB : (short for ''Kool-Bee'') ''(

)'' —

Open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

compiler, minimal, made mainly for learning purposes. ; KBasic : Basic for Qt

L

;

Liberty BASIC Liberty BASIC (LB) is a commercial computer programming language and integrated development environment (IDE). It has an BASIC interpreter , interpreter, developed in Smalltalk, which recognizes its own Programming language#Dialects, flavors and ...

: ''(

, Mac,

)'' — Traditional structured BASIC with extensions for desktop GUI programming. ; LikeBASIC : ''(

)'' — Basic interpreter component for applications in the

.NET Framework The .NET Framework (pronounced as "''dot net"'') is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It was the predominant implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) until bein ...

environment ;

Locomotive BASIC Locomotive Basic is a proprietary dialect of the BASIC programming language written by Locomotive Software on the Amstrad CPC (where it was built-in on ROM) and the later Locomotive BASIC-2 as a GEM application on the Amstrad PC1512 and 1640. ...

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Amstrad CPC The Amstrad CPC (short for ''Colour Personal Computer'') is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sin ...

)'' — built into the ROM, ''( ZX Spectrum +3)'' on

disk ;

LotusScript LotusScript is an object oriented programming language used by Lotus Notes (since version 4.0) and other IBM Lotus Software products. LotusScript is similar to Visual Basic. Developers familiar with one can easily understand the syntax and struct ...

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IBM Lotus Notes HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes and Lotus Notes; see Branding below) and HCL Domino (formerly IBM Domino and Lotus Domino) are the client and server, respectively, of a collaborative client-server software platform formerly sold by IBM, now by HC ...

)'' ; LowRes Coder : (

iOS iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also includes ...

)—App to create retro-style games or demos in BASIC. ;

Luxor Basic Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...

: ''( Luxor ABC 80)'' ; Learn to Program BASIC : ''(

95–98,

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7.5–9)'' — youth-oriented version, with interactive lessons to teach the user how to program ; LxBasic : ''(

)''

Free compiler and runtime compatible with Theos MultiUser Basic

M

; M2000 Interpreter : dual vocabulary (Greek-English) Interpreter in own environment - Open Source- Written in Vb6

; MacBASIC : Apple's original BASIC for the

, released as

Beta software A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...

and discontinued due to a deal with

; MAI Basic Four Business Basic : ''(misc. minicomputers)'' ;

Mallard BASIC Mallard BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for CP/M produced by Locomotive Software and supplied with the Amstrad PCW range of small business computers, the ZX Spectrum +3 version of CP/M#CP/M Plus, CP/M Plus, and the Acorn Computers, Acorn BBC Micro's Z ...

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Amstrad PCW The Amstrad PCW series is a range of personal computers produced by British company Amstrad from 1985 to 1998, and also sold under licence in Europe as the "Joyce" by the German electronics company Schneider in the early years of the series' life. ...

, ZX Spectrum +3 on

)'' — Similar to

; MapBasic : procedural language used specifically for GIS programs. ; MasmBasic : over 300 BASIC-style macros for the

Microsoft Macro Assembler The Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) is an x86 assembler that uses the Intel syntax for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Beginning with MASM 8.0, there are two versions of the assembler: One for 16-bit & 32-bit assembly sources, and another (ML64) fo ...

; requires the Masm32 package. ;

MBASIC MBASIC is the Microsoft BASIC implementation of BASIC for the CP/M operating system. MBASIC is a descendant of the original Altair BASIC interpreters that were among Microsoft's first products. MBASIC was one of the two versions of BASIC bundled w ...

: ''(

)'' — Further development of OBASIC, also by Microsoft. MBasic was one of the BASICs developed by Microsoft. Came with a

line editor In computing, a line editor is a text editor in which each editing command applies to one or more complete lines of text designated by the user. Line editors predate screen-based text editors and originated in an era when a computer operator typic ...

. ; MELFA BASIC : used by certain

Mitsubishi The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 1870 ...

robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be c ...

s and simulation packages. ; METRIC-BASIC : also known as Uppsala-BASIC ; MelloCOMPLEX : Based on "COMPLEX", a variant of BASIC ; MICOL BASIC : Compiled Basic based upon elements of C for the Apple ][ gs platform ;

: many versions for several different CPUs and system architectures exist, and many other BASICs are derivatives of some Microsoft BASIC ; Microsoft BASICA : See ''BASICA'' ; Microsoft GW-BASIC : ''GW-BASIC'' ; Microsoft Small Basic : ; Microsoft Level III BASIC : ''( Tandy /

TRS-80 The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of '' ...

)'' ; Microsoft Visual Basic : ''Visual Basic'' ; MinimalBASIC : A compiler for ''ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC'' emitting GNU assembly language targeting 64-bit x86-64 Linux ; MITS 4K BASIC : ''Altair BASIC'' ; MITS 8K BASIC : ''Altair BASIC'' ; MMBasic : The GWBasic Clone used by the

Maximite Maximite Microcomputer is a Microchip PIC32 microcontroller-based microcomputer. Originally designed as a hobby kit, the Maximite was introduced in a three-part article in Silicon Chip magazine in autumn of 2011 by Australian designer Geoff Graha ...

Microcomputer ; Mobile BASIC : ''(

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

enabled

mobile phone A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whil ...

s)'' ; MOLE Basic : ''(

on the PC)'' — Merty's Own Language Extension BASIC ; Moonrock Basic Compiler : ''(

on the PC)'' — Small compiler ; Monkey : (Supports various platforms, see page for details)'' — A simple but powerful programming language built primarily for

;

Morfik Morfik Technology Pty Ltd. is an Australian software company that was acquired by Altium in 2010. The company is known for developing a set of visual designers, compilers and a Framework combined in an Integrated development environment (IDE ...

Basic : Object-oriented dialect that can used to create Web applications, server and browser client-side code. ''( Web)'' ;

: ''(Mac OS)'' ;

MSX BASIC MSX BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is an extended version of Microsoft's MBASIC Version 4.5, adding support for graphic, music, and various peripherals attached to MSX microcomputers. Generally, MSX BASIC is designed to ...

: ''( MSX)'' — by

; MTBASIC : ''(CP/M, DOS)'' Multitasking BASIC compiler by Softaid

N

; N82-BASIC : ''(Old

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network soluti ...

PC8201/8201A)'' ; N88-BASIC : ''(Old

PC8801 The , commonly shortened to PC-88, are a brand of Zilog Z80-based 8-bit home computers released by Nippon Electric Company (NEC) in 1981 and primarily sold in Japan. The PC-8800 series sold extremely well and became one of the three major Japane ...

/9801)'' —

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

's most popular BASIC based on

's one ; N.A.M.E. Basic : compiles into

to run on the

Java Virtual Machine A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally describes ...

. Can also run in interpreted mode on the

JVM A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally describes ...

; Nevada BASIC : Ellis Computing Eight-bit

, had 12 digit precision and

matrix Matrix most commonly refers to: * ''The Matrix'' (franchise), an American media franchise ** ''The Matrix'', a 1999 science-fiction action film ** "The Matrix", a fictional setting, a virtual reality environment, within ''The Matrix'' (franchis ...

operations. A port of

Processor Technology Processor Technology Corporation was a personal computer company founded in April 1975 by Gary Ingram and Bob Marsh in Berkeley, California. Their first product was a 4K byte RAM board that was compatible with the MITS Altair 8800 computer but mo ...

8 KB BASIC ;

NorthStar BASIC North Star BASIC was a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Intel 8080 microprocessor used on the North Star Horizon and available for purchase on other S-100 bus machines of the late 1970s.Richard Milewski,Micro Mike's baZic release ...

: ''(

NorthStar Horizon The North Star Horizon was a popular 8-bit S-100 bus computer introduced in October 1977. Like most S-100 machines of the era, it was built around the Zilog Z80A microprocessor, and typically ran the CP/M operating system. It was produced by ...

, later adapted to

x86 x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the Intel 8086 microprocessor and its 8088 variant. The 8086 was introd ...

as ''Bazic '86'')'' and '' S.A.I.L.B.O.A.T.'' (a basic optimized for Z80 and X86 MS-DOS) ;

NS Basic NS Basic is a family of development tools developed and commercially marketed by NSB Corporation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, BlackBerry OS, WebOS, Newton OS, Palm OS, Windows CE and Windows Mobi ...

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Newton OS ''Newton OS'' is a discontinued operating system for the Apple Newton PDAs produced by Apple Computer, Inc. between 1993 and 1997. It was written entirely in C++ and trimmed to be low power consuming and use the available memory efficiently. Man ...

Symbian OS Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. It was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for personal digital assistants in 1998 by the Symbian Ltd. consortium. Symbian ...

Windows CE Windows Embedded Compact, formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows Powered and Windows CE, is an operating system subfamily developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows Embedded family of products. Unlike Windows Embedded Standard, which is base ...

Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants. Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...

)'' — IDE and

Bytecode Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references (norma ...

-interpreter ; nuBASIC : ''(

)'' — Interpreter written in

C++11 C++11 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. C++11 replaced the prior version of the C++ standard, called C++03, and was later replaced by C++14. The name follows the tradition of naming language versions by ...

for educational purposes.

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)'' — by

; Omikron Basic : ''(Atari ST, Mac OS)'' — Originally developed by Omikron Software for

. In

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it was bundled with new

s for a long time. Was later ported to the

classic Mac OS Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The ...

and was further developed for

. ; OpenBASIC : developed by MAI Systems Corporation, Inc. ;

Open Programming Language Open Programming Language (OPL) is a programming language for embedded systems and mobile devices that run the operating systems EPOC and Symbian. It was released by the British company Psion in 1984. Use Originally designed for use on thei ...

OPL : ''(

phones and PDAs)'' — Originally developed for Psion's product line of organisers and PDAs. OPL used to stand for Organiser Programming Language but after becoming open source in 2003, it was renamed. Available for most of Psion's classic organisers and PDAs,

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

9210/9290/9300/9500 Communicators and

Sony Ericsson Sony Mobile Communications Inc. ( ja, ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Group Corporation and Ericsson. I ...

P800/ P900/

P910 The Sony Ericsson P910 is a smartphone by Sony Ericsson introduced in 2004 and the successor of the Sony Ericsson P900. The P910 has a full QWERTY keyboard on the back of the flip (the flip can also be removed completely, allowing for a 'tradition ...

. ;

OWBasic OWBasic is an interpreted language environment that can be downloaded to Personal digital assistants like the Casio's Pocket viewer. Description Casio issued an SDK which amongst other things produced a programmable interpreter/compiler called OWB ...

: ''( Pocketviewer (

Casio is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. It ...

pda))'' — Fast compiler/interpreter system,

Open Source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

P

; Panoramic (computer language) : For Windows, able to handle 3D world and many Windows objects. ; Parrot BASIC : For the

Parrot virtual machine Parrot was a register-based process virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages efficiently. It is possible to compile Parrot assembly language and Parrot intermediate representation (PIR, an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and ...

; V 1.0 is modeled on GW-BASIC, V 2.0 is modeled on Microsoft QuickBASIC version 4.5 ;

PBASIC PBASIC is a microcontroller-based version of BASIC created by Parallax, Inc. in 1992. PBASIC was created to bring ease of use to the microcontroller and embedded processor world. It is used for writing code for the BASIC Stamp microcontrollers ...

: for use with the

Parallax Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. Due to foreshortening, nearby objects ...

BASIC Stamp The BASIC Stamp is a microcontroller with a small, specialized BASIC interpreter (PBASIC) built into ROM. It is made by Parallax, Inc. and has been popular with electronics hobbyists since the early 1990s. Technical specifications Although the ...

microcontroller A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable i ...

; PeayBASIC : hand-written interpreter in C# for simple text and graphics output ; Phoenix Object Basic : ''(

)'' — free, includes GUI builder ; PIC BASIC : for use with

s ; PIC BASIC Pro : aka PBP — for use with

PIC microcontroller PIC (usually pronounced as ''"pick"'') is a family of microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1650"PICmicro Family Tree", PIC16F Seminar Presentation originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics ...

s ; PICAXE BASIC : for use with PICAXE microcontrollers ; Pick/BASIC : (a.k.a. ''Data/BASIC'', ''Databasic'') ''(

Pick operating system The Pick Operating System (Pick System or Pick) is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing. It is named after one o ...

)'' — a BASIC language, extended for business use, and embedded into the Pick environment and variations of it. ; PlayBASIC : ''(

)'' — Fast and feature rich, focused on 2D game development. ;

PowerBASIC PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo Basic, is the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compile a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There are both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Wind ...

: ''(DOS, Win16, Win32)'' — free and commercial compilers for DOS and Windows, which focus on fast compile speeds and small binaries. They are Turbo Basic successors. ;

: 5 KB and 8 KB BASICs. Created for the SOL-20 computer, but widely ported to other platforms as Processor Technology published the 8080 source code. Nevada BASIC (CP/M) and Utah BASIC S-DOSwere the latest ports. ;

Profan Kompakt (Labelcode: LC 12012) is a Cologne-based electronic music independent record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno, and are known for ...

: ''(

)'' — easy to use, interpreted ; Professional Development System (PDS) : A superset of Microsoft

targeted at professional software developers. ;

ProvideX ProvideX is a computer language and development environment derived from Business Basic (a business oriented derivative of BASIC) in the mid-1980s. ProvideX is available on several operating systems (Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac OS X) and includes no ...

: ''(

)'' — Cross-platform program development language derived from

; PSX Chipmunk BASIC : ''(

PlayStation is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines. The brand is produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, a divisi ...

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;

PureBasic PureBasic is a commercially distributed procedural computer programming language and integrated development environment based on BASIC and developed by Fantaisie Software for Windows, Linux, and macOS. An Amiga version is available, although ...

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Apple silicon Apple silicon is a series of system on a chip (SoC) and system in a package (SiP) processors designed by Apple Inc., mainly using the ARM architecture. It is the basis of most new Mac computers as well as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV, a ...

) and Raspberry Pi (arm32, arm64))'' — Cross-platform program development language, 32 & 64bit. Fast compiler with many functions that creates fast and small standalone native executables which do not require runtime DLLs. It compiles with

FASM FASM (''flat assembler'') is an assembler for x86 processors. It supports Intel-style assembly language on the IA-32 and x86-64 computer architectures. It claims high speed, size optimizations, operating system (OS) portability, and macro abil ...

or a C compiler, and has inline support. ; PyBASIC : An interactive BASIC interpreter written in Python.

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;

QB64 QB64 (originally QB32) is a Self-hosting (compilers), self-hosting BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, designed to be compatible with Microsoft QBasic and QuickBASIC. QB64 is a C++ Code generation (compiler), emitter, which ...

: ''(

and

)'' — Self-hosting BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS. Aims at full compatibility with Microsoft QBasic and QuickBASIC. BASIC code is translated to C++ and then compiled to executable form. ;

QBasic QBasic is an integrated development environment (IDE) and interpreter for a variety of dialects of BASIC which are based on QuickBASIC. Code entered into the IDE is compiled to an intermediate representation (IR), and this IR is immediately e ...

: ''(

on the PC)'' — by

. Subset of QuickBASIC. Came with versions of

from 5.0 to 6.22. Also included with DOS 7 (what Windows 95 runs on,) and available from the install CD of Windows 98. ;

: ''(

on the PC)'' by

. An evolution of BASICA/GW-BASIC to block-structured lexical syntax that does not require line numbers, with many added intrinsic functions and language features (e.g. loop and conditional control constructs, file modes, and mixed-language programming support). Has an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), intended to compete with Borland Turbo language products (e.g. Turbo BASIC and especially the contemporarily popular Turbo Pascal). Mostly backward-compatible with BASICA source code. Includes a compiler and linker, and produces MS-DOS executables. Released in versions 1.0, 2.0. 3.0. 4.0, & 4.5. QuickBASIC 4.5 was released in 1988. The QuickBASIC 4.5 IDE includes an interpreter, syntax checking, debugging aids, and online help including a full language reference. ; Quite BASIC : Web-based classic BASIC programming environment. No download or signup necessary. Introduced in 2006.

R

;

RapidQ RapidQ (also known as ''Rapid-Q'') is a free, cross-platform, semi-object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language. It can create console, graphical user interface, and Common Gateway Interface applications. The integrated developme ...

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SPARC SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Its design was strongly influenced by the experimental Berkeley RISC system developed ...

and

HP-UX HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on Unix System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984. Current versions support HPE Integrity Ser ...

)'' — Free, borrowed from

. Useful for graphical interfaces. Works mainly with

instructions. (Cross-platform, free, no longer being developed). Semi-OO interpreter. Includes

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IDE. ;

RBScript The Xojo programming environment and programming language is developed and commercially marketed by Xojo, Inc. of Austin, Texas for software development targeting macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, the World Wide Web, Web and Raspberry Pi. Xoj ...

: ''(

and

)'' — Scripting language based on

REALbasic The Xojo programming environment and programming language is developed and commercially marketed by Xojo, Inc. of Austin, Texas for software development targeting macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, the Web and Raspberry Pi. Xojo uses a propri ...

. ;

RC Basic R&C, RC, R/C, Rc, or rc may refer to: Science and technology Computing * rc, the default Command line interface in Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs * .rc (for "run commands"), a filename extension for configuration files in UNIX-like ...

: ''(

, Android)'' — Basic Compiler geared towards game development. ;

: ''(

and

)'' — Platform independent BASIC. Object-oriented

-like Basic variant. Currently known as

Xojo The Xojo programming environment and programming language is developed and commercially marketed by Xojo, Inc. of Austin, Texas for software development targeting macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, the Web and Raspberry Pi. Xojo uses a propri ...

. ; Revelation BASIC or R/Basic : ''(

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Research Machines RM Education is the principal division of RM plc, a British company that specialises in providing information technology products and services to educational organisations and establishments. Its key market is UK education including schools, col ...

for their early

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range of PCs ; RobotBASIC : ''(

)'' — Free BASIC interpreter and Robotic Simulator for the Windows OS that allows for Gaming and GUI graphical programming. New version will also compile to stand alone executables. ;

Rocky Mountain BASIC Rocky Mountain BASIC (also RMB or RM-BASIC) is a dialect of the BASIC programming language created by Hewlett-Packard. It was especially popular for control of automatic test equipment using GPIB. It has several features which are or were unus ...

: created by HP to control instruments through

HP-IB IEEE 488 is a short-range digital communications 8-bit parallel multi-master interface bus specification developed by Hewlett-Packard as HP-IB (Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus). It subsequently became the subject of several standards, and ...

; Run BASIC : ''(

, and

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S

;

S-BASIC S-BASIC (for Structured Basic) was a "structured" BASIC variant, distributed with Kaypro CP/M systems. It was made by Topaz Programming is distributed by Micro-Ap (San Ramon, CA). SBasic was compatible with the syntax of BASIC, a programming ...

: "Structured" BASIC, came with

Kaypro Kaypro Corporation was an American home and personal computer manufacturer based out of San Diego in the 1980s. The company was founded by Non-Linear Systems (NLS) to compete with the popular Osborne 1 portable microcomputer. Kaypro produced a ...

systems ; S.A.I.L.B.O.A.T. : SAIL Basic on Another Tack (CP/M, DOS Z80, X86, pseudo interpreted, Northstar Basic Compatible, B-Tree File System) ; S.I.C.K. : The Symbolic Instruction Code Kit is a pseudo-BASIC interpreter written in QB64

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)'' ; SAX Basic : Simple API for XML ; SBAS : "Structured BASIC" popular in British schools in 1980s & 90s. Written by Bryan Tackaberry of SPA Ltd to run on RM plc computers. ;

: developed for Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500 Communicator. Development not finished, stopped with version 0.9. ; ScriptBasic : Cross platform (ANSI C) Open source embeddable interpreter/API. The ScriptBasic project is primarily an embeddable scripting API with examples of a command line interpreter and multi-threaded HTTP application server running as a service. ;

sdlBasic SdlBasic is a multiplatform interpreter for BASIC, using the SDL libraries. Its interpreter core is based on wxBasic. The interpreter can be very useful for people who are familiar with ANSI-BASIC interpreters and are curious or needing SDL libr ...

: Free, multiplatform, based on core of wxBasic, but uses the SDL library. ; SEGA BASIC : SEGA version of BASIC dedicated to SEGA SC-3000 computer ; Sharp BASIC : ''(

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Simons' BASIC Simons' BASIC is an BASIC extension, extension to Commodore BASIC, BASIC 2.0 for the Commodore 64 home computer. Written by British people, British programmer David Simons in 1983, who was 16 years old at the time, it was distributed by Commodore I ...

: A cartridge-based utility that added 114 additional keywords to the standard BASIC 2.0 on the

computer ; Simple BASIC : for Windows R3 Intermedia Language version Traditional BASIC, made for scientific purpose. ; SIMPOL : Object-oriented, made to emit code for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X ;

: ''(

ZX80 The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer launched on 29 January 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. (later to be better known as Sinclair Research). It is notable for being one of the first computers available in the United Kingdom for less than a h ...

ZX81 The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland, by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and designed to be a low-cos ...

TS1000 The Timex Sinclair 1000 (or T/S 1000) was the first computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a joint venture between Timex Group USA, Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research. It was launched in July 1982, with a US sales price of US$99.95, making it t ...

Timex Sinclair 2068 The Timex Sinclair 2068 (T/S 2068), released in November 1983, was Timex Sinclair's third and last home computer for the United States market. It was also marketed in Canada, Argentina, Portugal and Poland, as Timex Computer 2068 (TC 2068). Hi ...

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, etc.)'' — A small

-ed interpreter. ;

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)'' — by

DevLabs Team. ;

smart BASIC Smart or SMART may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Smart'' (Hey! Say! JUMP album), 2014 * Smart (Hotels.com), former mascot of Hotels.com * ''Smart'' (Sleeper album), 1995 debut album by Sleeper * ''SMart'', a children's television ser ...

: for

; SmartBASIC : ''(

Coleco Adam The Coleco Adam is a home computer and expansion device for the ColecoVision released in 1983 by American toy and video game manufacturer Coleco. It was an attempt to follow on the success of the company's ColecoVision video game console. The Ad ...

)'' ; SmileBASIC : A retro dialect of BASIC used in

Petit Computer ''Petit Computer'' is a software development application for the Nintendo DSi and later systems, developed by SmileBoom in Sapporo, Japan. The application is built around a custom dialect of BASIC known as SmileBASIC (not to be confused with the 3 ...

(for the DSi) and SmileBASIC (for the 3DS) ; Sony BASIC : for the

Sony SMC-70 The SMC-70 is a microcomputer that was produced by Sony and released in September 1982. The system was initially released for general office use in the United States, with the SMC-70G and SMC-70GP (released in 1983) designed for professional video ...

; SOBS : ''(

ICT 1900 series ICT 1900 was a family of mainframe computers released by International Computers and Tabulators (ICT) and later International Computers Limited (ICL) during the 1960s and 1970s. The 1900 series was notable for being one of the few non-American ...

)'' ''Southampton BASIC System'' ; Softworks Basic : ''( Win32, Visual Studio.Net, Linux, Unix)'' — a superset of AlphaBasic ; SpecBAS : An enhanced

interpreter for modern PCs. ; Spectacle BASIC : ''(

— can be recompiled for

and

)'' an

, interpreted :Spiderbasic
SpiderBasic
is a new web client-side programming language based on established BASIC rules. Its allows development of very complex, windowed based web applications, including mobile app for iOS and Android. : : ; SQABasic : For the

Rational Software Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its ...

designed for Robot Script ; StarBasic : ''StarOffice Basic'' ;

StarOffice Basic OpenOffice Basic (formerly known as StarOffice Basic or StarBasic or OOoBasic) is a dialect of the programming language BASIC that originated with the StarOffice office suite and spread through OpenOffice.org and derivatives such as Apache OpenOff ...

: (a.k.a. ''StarBasic'') ''(

OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed), Apache OpenOffice, Collabora Online (enterprise ready LibreOffice) a ...

StarOffice StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary software, proprietary office suite, intended to compete with the marketing-leading Microsoft Office. It served as the basis for open-source suites OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the ...

)'' ; ST BASIC (Atari) : ''(

)'' — This came with the

;

: ''(

)'' — For

made for

. Predecessor of

on the

. ; Submarine BASIC : ''BASIC-E'' ;

SuperBASIC SuperBASIC is an advanced variant of the BASIC programming language with many structured programming additions. It was developed at Sinclair Research by Jan Jones during the early 1980s. Originally SuperBASIC was intended as the BASIC interprete ...

: ''(

Sinclair QL The Sinclair QL (for ''Quantum Leap'') is a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as an upper-end counterpart to the ZX Spectrum. The QL was aimed at the serious home user and professional and executive users markets from small ...

)'' ; Super Game System BASIC : For

Windows 10 Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on J ...

Is Basic Implementation for learning and creating simple games

; SV extended BASIC : ''(

Spectravideo Spectravideo International (SVI) was an American computer manufacturer and software house. It was originally called SpectraVision, a company founded by Harry Fox in 1981. The company produced video games and other software for the VIC-20 home c ...

)'' — For

318/328, by

T

; T-BASIC : BASIC dialect used on the Wang 2200T and its Soviet Russian clone, the Iskra (Spark) 226. ; T-BASIC : Version of Microsoft BASIC used on the

Toshiba Pasopia Toshiba Pasopia is a computer from manufacturer Toshiba, released in 1981 and based around a Zilog Z80 microprocessor. This is not to be confused with the Toshiba Pasopia IQ, a similar named line of MSX compatible computers. There are two model ...

. ; TBASIC : Version of BASIC used for software development on ATTI's family of BRAT test systems ;

Tektronix Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. Originally an independent ...

: For the 4050 series computers, extensive graphics commands ; Terminal-BASIC : Pure interpreter, written in

. Supports large subset of Minimal BASIC, runs on

Arduino Arduino () is an open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardware products are licensed unde ...

. Free software (

GPL3 The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...

, LGPL3)
Project page
; THEOS Multi-User Basic : ''(

THEOS THEOS, which translates from Greek as "God", is an operating system which started out as OASIS, a microcomputer operating system for small computers that use the Z80 processor. When the operating system was launched for the IBM Personal Compu ...

)'' ;

thinBasic thinBasic is a BASIC-like computer programming Programming language, language BASIC interpreter, interpreter with a central core engine architecture surrounded by many specialized modules. Although originally designed mainly for computer automat ...

: interpreter for

; TI BASIC : (note: no hyphen) ''(

TI-99/4A The TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A are home computers released by Texas Instruments in 1979 and 1981, respectively. Based on the Texas Instruments TMS9900 microprocessor originally used in minicomputers, the TI-99/4 was the first 16-bit home computer. ...

)'' ;

TI Extended BASIC TI BASIC is an ANSI-compliant BASIC programming language interpreter built into the 1979 Texas Instruments TI-99/4 home computer and its improved 1981 version, the TI-99/4A. In contrast to most BASICs found on contemporary microcomputers, TI ...

: ''(

)'' ;

TI-BASIC TI-BASIC is the official name of a BASIC-like language built into Texas Instruments (TI)'s graphing calculators. TI-BASIC is a language family of three different and incompatible versions, released on different products: * TI-BASIC 83 (on Z80 ...

: (note: hyphen) ''(

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...

programmable calculator Programmable calculators are calculators that can automatically carry out a sequence of operations under control of a stored computer programming, program. Most are Turing complete, and, as such, are theoretically general-purpose computers. Howe ...

s)'' ; Tiger-BASIC : High speed multitasking, for

s of the BASIC-Tiger family. ;

: ''(any

microcomputer A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (PC ...

, but mostly implemented on early

S-100 bus The S-100 bus or Altair bus, IEEE 696-1983 ''(withdrawn)'', is an early computer bus designed in 1974 as a part of the Altair 8800. The bus was the first industry standard expansion bus for the microcomputer industry. computers, consisting of ...

machines)'' — Minimalist version which source code was smaller than this article, used on low-memory platforms. ; TML BASIC : ''(

Apple IIGS The Apple IIGS (styled as II), the fifth and most powerful of the Apple II family, is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer. While featuring the Macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the Amiga and Atari ST ...

)'' — A compiled BASIC with a GUI hosted IDE for writing native GUI apps. ; TRS-80 Level I BASIC : ''(

)'' — based on

. ;

TRS-80 Level II BASIC Microsoft BASIC is the foundation software product of the Microsoft company and evolved into a line of BASIC interpreters and compiler(s) adapted for many different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first v ...

: ''( Tandy /

)'' — based on

; TRS-80 Model 100 BASIC : ''(

TRS-80 Model 100 The TRS-80 Model 100 is a portable computer introduced in April 26th, 1983. It is one of the first notebook-style computers, featuring a keyboard and liquid crystal display, in a battery-powered package roughly the size and shape of a notepad or ...

)'' — based on

, with special support for the RAM file store, LCD display, and other built-in hardware of the TRS-80 Model 100 and Tandy 102 portable computers ;

True BASIC True BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC—the original BASIC. Both were created by college professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. History True BASIC traces its history to an offsh ...

: ''(DOS, MS Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Unix)'' — Direct descendant of the ''original'' BASIC, ''Dartmouth BASIC'', marketed by its creators. Strictly standards-compliant. ;

Turbo Basic PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo Basic, is the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compile a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There are both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Wind ...

: ''(

)'' — Added 55 commands to the C64 BASIC, Released by Aztec Software, written by Julian Gardner. ;

: ''(

on the PC)'' — Commercial compiler by

Borland Borland Software Corporation was a computer technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was the development and sale of software development and software deployment product ...

. ( BASIC/Z successor) (see

) ; Turbo-Basic XL : ''(

)'' —

interpreter and compiler for the

— based on

. Even this "slow" interpreter was about four times faster than the built-in BASIC. Written by

Frank Ostrowski Frank Ostrowski (born 1960 - died 2011) was a German programmer best known for his implementations of the BASIC programming language. After his time with the German Federal Armed Forces, Frank Ostrowski was unemployed for three years. During this ...

, the person who would go on to develop

. Came from '' Happy Computer''. ; TxBasic : ''(

)'' Compiler and runtime compatible with Theos MultiUser Basic with extended features ; Tymshare SuperBasic : ''( SDS 940)''

U

;

UBASIC UBASIC is a freeware (public domain software without source code) BASIC interpreter written by Yuji Kida at Rikkyo University in Japan, specialized for mathematical computing. Features UBASIC is a ready-to-run language that does not need to be s ...

: ''(

on the PC)'' — Interpreter with many

mathematical Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

routines. Strong emphasis on

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

. Can work with many-digit numbers,

complex number In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^= -1; every complex number can be expressed in the form ...

s. ; UniBASIC : dialect that is part of the UniData database, with a strong focus on data access and manipulation. ;

UniVerse The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. Acc ...

: dialect that is part of the

database, with strong focus on data access and manipulation. ; Uppsala-BASIC : also known as METRIC-BASIC ; Utah BASIC : Ellis Computing, had 12-digit precision and

operations. MS-DOS port of the

8K BASIC. See Nevada BASIC.

V

; VAX BASIC : DEC's BASIC-Plus-2 ported to

/ VMS ; VBA : See ''Visual Basic for Applications'' ; VBS : See ''VBScript'' ;

VBScript VBScript (''"Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition"'') is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers w ...

: (a.k.a. ''VBS, Visual Basic Script, Visual Basic Scripting Edition'') — A subset of

used in ASP,

Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical user interface, graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Microsoft Wind ...

, or under Windows using the

Windows Script Host The Microsoft Windows Script Host (WSH) (formerly named Windows Scripting Host) is an automation technology for Microsoft Windows operating systems that provides scripting abilities comparable to batch files, but with a wider range of supported fe ...

(WSH) as a general-purpose scripting language. VBScript is often used as a replacement for

batch file Batch may refer to: Food and drink * Batch (alcohol), an alcoholic fruit beverage * Batch loaf, a type of bread popular in Ireland * A dialect term for a bread roll used in North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Coventry, as well as on the Wirral ...

s. ;

Vilnius BASIC Vilnius BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language running on the Elektronika BK-0010-01/BK-0011M and UKNC computers. It was a quite advanced BASIC and, instead of being an interpreter like most systems of the day, featured a runtim ...

: ''(

Elektronika Elektronika, also spelt Electronika and Electronica (russian: Электроника, "Electronics"), is the brand name used for many different electronics, electronic products built by factories belonging to the Soviet Ministry of Electronic Ind ...

BK-0010-01, BK-0011M and

UKNC UKNC (russian: УКНЦ) is a Soviet PDP-11-compatible educational micro computer, aimed at teaching school informatics courses. It is also known as Elektronika MS-0511. UKNC stands for Educational Computer by Scientific Centre. Hardware *CPU: KM ...

computers)'' ; Vintage BASIC : Cross-platform,

interpreter for microcomputer BASIC, written in

Haskell Haskell () is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching, research and industrial applications, Haskell has pioneered a number of programming lan ...

. ;

: ''(

)'' —

dialect with

environment. ;

Visual Basic .NET Visual Basic, originally called Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, implemented on .NET, Mono, and the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visua ...

: ''(

)'' — Version within the

. ;

Visual Basic for Applications Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6.0 built into most desktop Microsoft Office applications. Although based on pre-.NET Visual Basic, which is no longer supported ...

: (a.k.a. ''VBA'') ''(

Microsoft Office Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketin ...

on MS Windows and

)'' ;

Visual Basic Script VBScript (''"Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition"'') is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers ...

: See ''VBScript'' ; Visual Basic Scripting Edition : See ''VBScript'' ; Visual Test : (Originally MS-TEST) — Basic in Visual Test ;

: Originally released as

BASIC by

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...

, owned by VMS Software Inc. (VSI) since 2014. Runs on the

operating system.

W

; Wasabi : functional dialect with features such as closures,

continuation In computer science, a continuation is an abstract representation of the control state of a computer program. A continuation implements ( reifies) the program control state, i.e. the continuation is a data structure that represents the computati ...

s and first order functions, created at

Fog Creek Software Glitch (previously known as Fog Creek Software) is a software company specializing in project management tools. Its products include project management and content management, and code review tools. History Based in New York City, Fog Creek wa ...

as an in-house web applications development platform. Not released to public, but often features in the influential blog of

Joel Spolsky Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of ''Joel on Software'', a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Exce ...

, Fog Creek founder and CEO. ;

Watcom Basic Watcom International Corporation was a software company, which was founded in 1981 by Wes Graham and Ian McPhee. Founding staff (Fred Crigger, Jack Schueler and McPhee) were formerly members of Professor Graham's Computer Systems Group at the Uni ...

: Dialect by

Watcom Watcom International Corporation was a software company, which was founded in 1981 by Wes Graham and Ian McPhee. Founding staff (Fred Crigger, Jack Schueler and McPhee) were formerly members of Professor Graham's Computer Systems Group at the Uni ...

;

: VBA type third party interpreter which can be linked into programmes to give them macro/VBA functionality ;

WordBasic WordBASIC was a subset of Microsoft QuickBASIC customized for word-processing in Microsoft Word. It was replaced by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) when Word 97 was released. Contrarily to VBA, WordBasic was not object-oriented Object- ...

: versions of

Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name ''Multi-Tool Word'' for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms includin ...

before MS Word 97 ; wxBasic :

interpreter based on the platform independent

wxWidgets wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with mini ...

toolkit library. For

(proposed) and

X

; X11-Basic : ''(

, Android,

Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi () is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic ...

)'' — dialect of the BASIC programming language with graphics, sound and more. ;

XBasic XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open sou ...

: ''(

)'' —

compiler with a GUI designer ;

XBLite XBLite is a free Open Source BASIC programming language compiler and development system. It was started in 2001 by David Szafranski in order to provide a Windows exclusive version of the XBasic dialect. XBLite is released under the GNU GPL licen ...

: ''(

)'' —

-compiler with integrated editor ;

: ''(

MacOS macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...

and Web)'' — Platform independent BASIC. Object-oriented

-like Basic variant. Formerly known as

Y

; Yabasic : ''(

and

PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October 2000, in Europe on 24 November 2000, and in Australia on 3 ...

)'' Small interpreter. (

) ; yab : ''(

BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users a ...

Zeta Zeta (, ; uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; grc, ζῆτα, el, ζήτα, label= Demotic Greek, classical or ''zē̂ta''; ''zíta'') is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived f ...

, HaikuOS)'' Adaptation of Yabasic that enables the creation of graphical programs using the BeOS

API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...

. ; yBasic : See ''HotPaw Basic''

Z

; ZBasic : Visual Basic subset dialect for ZX microcontrollers with support for multitasking. ; ZBasic (Zedcor Zbasic) : first released by Zedcor (Tucson, Arizona) in mid-1985. Versions were made for Apple, DOS, Macintosh CP/M and TRS-80 computers. In 1991, 32 Bit Software Inc. (Dallas, Texas) bought the DOS version and expanded it. Zedcor concentrated on the Apple Mac market and renamed it FutureBASIC. ZBasic was very fast, efficient and advanced, with BCD math precision up to 54 digits. ; Zeus, Basic : developed for Windows and Pocket PC by KRMicros (Kronos Robotics).

BASIC extensions

BASIC extensions (a.k.a. ''BASIC toolkits'') extend a particular BASIC. ''(Platforms: APCW =

; A8 =

; C64 =

; C128 =

Commodore 128 The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, C= 128,The "C=" represents the graphical part of the logo. is the last 8-bit home computer that was commercially released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM). Introduced in January 1985 at the ...

; Spec+3 = ZX Spectrum +3;

VIC-20 The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PE ...

)'' *

BASIC 8 BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ...

''(C128)'' — Third-party extension of the C128's

7.0 * Beta BASIC ''(ZX Spectrum)'' * BASIC XL Toolkit ''(A8)'' — Disk-based extension of OSS's BASIC XL for Atari 8-bits * Basic Lightning ''(C64)'' — The White Lightning development suite, by Oasis Software included also a quite capable BASIC extension for the Commodore BASIC 2.0 * Exbasic Level II ''(C64)'' — Extended BASIC. An improved BASIC for the C64, which was loaded from

disk Disk or disc may refer to: * Disk (mathematics), a geometric shape * Disk storage Music * Disc (band), an American experimental music band * ''Disk'' (album), a 1995 EP by Moby Other uses * Disk (functional analysis), a subset of a vector sp ...

ROM cartridge A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electroni ...

. * Graphics BASIC ''(C64)'' — Third-party extension of the C64's Commodore BASIC 2.0 * Laser Basic ''(C64)'' — Was Ocean Software's updated version of The White Lightning development suite, which extended Commodore BASIC 2.0. A compiler called Laser Basic Compiler was available. * Laser Basic ''(ZX Spectrum)'' *

Lightning Extended BASIC Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electric charge, electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the land, ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous ...

''(APCW; Spec+3 on

)'' — Extended

with sophisticated graphics functions * YS MegaBasic ''(ZX Spectrum)'' * Monkey Wrench II ''(A8)'' — ROM cartridge extension of

from Eastern House Software. Using the right cartridge slot it required an Atari 800. *

''(C64)'' — CBM-marketed improved BASIC for the C64, loaded from

* Super Expander ''(VIC-20)'' — CBM's own cartridge based extension of the VIC-20's Commodore BASIC 2.0 * Super Expander 64 ''(C64)'' — CBM's own cartridge based extension of the VIC-20's Commodore BASIC 2.0, for the C64

References

External links

*
Detailed overview of many BASIC compilers

All BASIC language reference and code project site

SEGA SC-3000 computer, BASIC language details
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of BASIC Dialects * BASIC dialects