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BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached

Today in programming language hacks we have string art rendered in BASIC. String art — also known as pin and thread art, or filography — is an art form where images are invoked by thread woven between ...

A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
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Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Early in BASIC's history, its creators, John Kemeny (left) and Thomas Kurtz (center) go over a program with a Dartmouth student Early in BASIC's history, its creators, John Kemeny (left) and Thomas ...
Hackaday

BASIC: Cross-Platform Software Hacking Then And Now

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.
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A DC basic income program is letting people choose the amount on their checks. A participant said $1,400 a month is what she needs to pay medical bills.

A DC basic income program lets participants choose their monthly payment amounts, no-strings-attached. The CashRx pilot by Bread for the City aims to improve health outcomes for low-income residents.