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Encyclopedia > Turbo BASIC programming language
This article is about the Borland version of Turbo-Basic. There is an article on Turbo Basic XL - a dialect of BASIC for the Atari 8-bit family.

Turbo BASIC is a BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Bob Zales and bought from him by Borland. When Borland decided to stop publishing it, Zales bought it back from them, renamed it to PowerBASIC and set up the PowerBASIC company to continue support and development of it. It is still sold today.


Code sample

 INPUT "What is your name"; A$ PRINT "Hello "; A$ DO S$ = "" INPUT "How many stars do you want to print"; S FOR I = 1 TO S S$ = S$ + "*" NEXT I PRINT S$ DO INPUT "Do you want to print more stars"; Q$ LOOP WHILE LEN(Q$) = 0 Q$ = LEFT$(Q$, 1) LOOP WHILE (Q$ = "Y") OR (Q$ = "y") PRINT "Goodbye "; A$

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BASIC programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3219 words)
Programming languages of the era tended to be designed, like the machines on which they ran, for specific purposes (such as scientific formula processing or text editing).
The original BASIC language was invented in 1963 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
BASIC was intended to address the complexity issues of older languages with a new language designed specifically for the new class of users the time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a "simpler" user who was not as interested in speed as in simply being able to use the machine.
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Bywater BASIC (aka bwBASIC) is a GPL BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell for MS-DOS and POSIX.
Scheme APL (for A Programming Language, or sometimes Array Processing Language) is an array programming language based on a notation invented in 1957 by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard University.
Simula ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years.
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