BBC BASIC - Programming language

BBC BASIC is an open source programming language created in 1981 by Sophie Wilson.

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BBC BASIC is a programming language, developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the MOS Technology 6502 based Acorn BBC Micro home/personal computer. It is a version of the BASIC programming language adapted for a UK computer literacy project of the BBC. It was written mainly by Sophie Wilson. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of BBC BASIC happened in BBC Micro
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for BBC BASIC
See also: (7 related languages) BASIC, BCPL, Acorn Atom, COMAL, ARM, Assembly language, C

Example from hello-world:

PRINT "Hello World"

Example from Wikipedia:

IF INSTR(REPORT$,"VI") THEN PRINT "BASIC64" ELSE PRINT "BASIC"

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		PRINT