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BASIC
This was a computer language originally designed to teach students about computer programming. But it proved so popular that it became an important computer language in its own right.
BASIC is an 'interpreted' language which means that the computer converts every line of code in turn into machine code and then acts on those instructions.
The advantage of an interpreted language is that you can check out a command by simply typing it into the BASIC interpreter.
The disadvantage is that interpreted languages are slower than compiled languages that convert *all* the program into machine code beforehand.
BASIC is short for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
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