BASIC is 50 years old!

[Don Shepherd]

(04-15-2014 08:41 AM)Alvaro Wrote:  What I want to stay is that BASIC is nearly gone from the devices where are most needed, in Calculators.

Well, probably the most popular calculator out there right now is the TI-83/84 family, and each one of those has TI's version of BASIC (I assume that is still true, it's been a few years since I bought one). You've got to select your commands from menus, so it is not the easiest device to program, but it is possible, and you can write your program on your PC and download it to the calculator.

Quote:At University, outside the Math´s teaching, you will need something to deal with problems that are not present in Math´s Libraries.

That is true. I will list the first BASIC program I ever wrote, in 1973, in another post.

Quote:About of "hundreds of versions of BASIC", that is also the questions: Why there is so many variations?

There are so many variations because BASIC is a popular language and many developers have written their own version. People like simplicity.

Quote:About FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) I had to learn it at University and I like it very much, specialy because it was sensitiv for "programing" errors. Before you got the Program running, it could be sometime very stressing.

And that is exactly the reason for programming languages like Scratch. It eliminates syntax errors by making you choose pre-defined easy-to-use program structures. That makes the language very appealing to beginners and young students.