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Chapters: BASIC, QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC, IBM BASICA, True BASIC, VBScript, Visual Basic for Applications, PureBasic, PowerBASIC, Liberty BASIC, AMOS, XBasic, BBC BASIC, ScriptBasic, Turbo Basic, Phoenix Object Basic, Atari BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, COMAL, BSAVE, List of BASIC dialects by platform, Visual Basic .NET, BASICODE, Comparison of C Sharp and Visual Basic .NET, UBASIC, REALbasic, FreeBASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, DarkBASIC, Sinclair BASIC, Beta BASIC, GFA BASIC, Basic4ppc, QBasic, HP BASIC for OpenVMS, MSX BASIC, NS Basic, XBLite, Variant type, Gambas, Microsoft Small Basic, TI BASIC, Locomotive BASIC, SBASIC, ProvideX, Atari ST BASIC, SmallBASIC, RapidQ, The 3D Gamemaker, Creative Basic, StarOffice Basic, Vilnius BASIC, Turbo-Basic XL, Business Basic, Antiryad Gx, IBM Cassette BASIC, ASIC programming language, LotusScript, SuperBASIC, LSE, IBM Disk BASIC, Business application language, HBasic, CA-Realizer, MapBasic, Control array, Caché Basic, BCX, BBx, X-BASIC, BBj, Gnome Basic,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 377. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Atari BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Atari 8-bit family of 6502-based home computers. The interpreter originally shipped on an 8 KB cartridge; on later XL/XE model computers it was built in, with an option to disable it, and started when the machines were booted with no other cartridges in place. The complete commented source code and design specifications of Atari BASIC were published as a book in 1983. This marked the first time source code was made available for a commercial language. The output of a small program using GRAPHICS 2 mode. The text says in READY. In the nomenclature of the time when these machines were designed, "K" was taken to mean one kilobyte, so that is how it is expressed here. Similarly, further, on the family o...http://booksllc.net/?id=147581 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language, developed by Microsoft, which uses the Component Object Model to access elements of the environment within which it is running (e.g. FileSystemObject or FSO used to create, read, update and delete files). The language's syntax reflects its origins as a limited variation of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language. VBScript has been installed by default in every desktop release of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98; as part of Windows Server since Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack; and optionally with Windows CE (depending on the device it is installed on). ... Read more

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This booklet provides students a broad but not indepth coverage of the World Wide Web, the Internet, HTML, and VBScript.As emphasis is placed on VBScript, general knowledge of Visual Basic would be an asset.There is a web site (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7590) thatcontains the texts' scripts and a CAI tutorial.The end of the book contains "Practice" and "Drill" exercises with the answers. ... Read more