This is part 2 from series “Tiny Great Languages”. Final code is on Github. Part 1: Assembly. Part 2: BASIC. Part 3: Forth/MOUSE. Part 4: Lisp. Part 5: APL/K. Meet BASIC, the king of home computing in the late 1970s. Originally designed to promote computer literacy in schools, BASIC inspired a whole generation of professional software engineers. BASIC typically combined a simple text editor with a command shell and interpreter.
