This is an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects — interpreted and compiled variants of the

BASIC BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ...

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. Each dialect's platform(s), i.e., the computer models and

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s, are given in parentheses along with any other significant information.

Dialects

0–9

; 1771-DB BASIC : Allen-Bradley PLC industrial controller BASIC module;

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BASIC-52 extended with PLC-specific calls. ; 64K BASIC : Cross-platform, interactive,

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

interpreter for microcomputer BASIC.

A

; ABasiC ''(

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore International, Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and sign ...

)'' : Relatively limited. Initially provided with Amiga computers by MetaComCo. ;

ABC BASIC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Televis ...

: designed for the '' ABC 80'' and '' ABC 800'' line of computers designed by Dataindustrier AB and manufactured by Luxor AB (including ''ABC 802'', ''ABC 806'' etc.). ; ACE ''(

)'' : A Compiler for Everyone —

Freeware Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for t ...

, AmigaBASIC compatible, has extra features, some of which exploit the Amiga's hardware and operating system. ;Advan BASIC : For the Atari home computer, disk based, containing BASIC, compiler, screen design and utilities. Released to public domain July, 2006 ; Advanced BASIC : (a.k.a. BASIC Advanced, Advanced BASIC) (DOS on the PC) by Microsoft. Available in ROM on IBM PCs. Later disk based versions for IBM PC DOS. ; AlphaBasic : ; Altair BASIC : (a.k.a. ''MITS 4K BASIC'', ''MITS 8K BASIC'', ''Altair Disk Extended BASIC'') ''( Altair 8800, S-100)'' — Microsoft's first product ; Altair Disk Extended BASIC : See Altair BASIC ; Amiga BASIC ''(

)'' : Somewhat easier than ABasiC, see

MS BASIC for Macintosh MS BASIC for Macintosh was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh. It was one of the first Microsoft BASIC variants to have optional line numbering, predating QuickBASIC. It was provided in two versions, one with standard binary floating point ...

. ; AmiBlitz ''(

)'' : Open-source version of Blitz BASIC. ; AMOS BASIC ''(

)'' : For the

, made for game programming. A descendant of STOS BASIC on the Atari ST. Later derivatives included ''AMOS Professional'' (a.k.a. ''AMOS Pro'') and ''

Easy AMOS AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Amiga computer. Following on from the successful STOS BASIC for the Atari ST, AMOS BASIC was written for the Amiga by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos and published by ...

''.
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ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organ ...

: Standard for the programming language Minimal BASIC X3.60-1978, a 1978 standard for minimal features, and X3.113-1987, the full BASIC standard; rarely implemented fully. ; Apple BASIC ( Apple I) : See:

Integer BASIC Integer BASIC is a BASIC interpreter written by Steve Wozniak for the Apple I and Apple II computers. Originally available on cassette for the Apple I in 1976, then included in ROM on the Apple II from its release in 1977, it was the first ver ...

;

Apple Business BASIC The Apple III (styled as apple ///) is a business-oriented personal computer produced by Apple Computer and released in 1980. Running the Apple SOS operating system, it was intended as the successor to the Apple II series, but was largely consi ...

''( Apple III)'' : ; Applesoft BASIC ''(

Apple II series The Apple II series (trademarked with square brackets as "Apple ] ''" and rendered on later models as "Apple //") is a family of home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primaril ...

)'' : Based on the same

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...

code that Commodore BASIC was based on. Standard on the

Apple II Plus The Apple II Plus (stylized as Apple ] or apple plus) is the second model of the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. It was sold from June 1979 to December 1982. Approximately 380,000 II Pluses were sold during its ...

Apple II Europlus An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ances ...

and all later models of the Apple II family. ; ARMbasic : BASIC compiler for ARM processors, ported to a number of popular ARM development PCBs. ;

APU BASIC APU or Apu may refer to: Film and television * '' The Apu Trilogy'', a series of three Bengali films, directed by Satyajit Ray, with the fictional character Apu Roy, comprising: ** '' Pather Panchali'' (''Song of the Little Road'') (1955), the fir ...

: version of SORD CBASIC for the M23 with arithmetic processor ; Aribas : interactive interpreter for big integer arithmetic and multi-precision floating point arithmetic with a Pascal/Modula-like syntax. It has several builtin functions for algorithmic number theory like gcd, Jacobi symbol, Rabin probabilistic prime test, factorization algorithms (Pollard rho, elliptic curve, continued fraction, quadratic sieve), etc. ; ASIC : ''( DOS on the PC)'' ; Assembler :PICAXE chip language ; Atari 2600 Basic Programming : ''(

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600, initially branded as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) from its release until November 1982, is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977, it popularized microprocess ...

video game console)''
SuperCharger Disk BASIC
''(

video game console)'' : StarPath SuperCharger cartridge plus disk-based extensions. ;

Atari BASIC Atari BASIC is an interpreter for the BASIC programming language that shipped with the Atari 8-bit family of 6502-based home computers. Unlike most American BASICs of the home computer era, Atari BASIC is not a derivative of Microsoft BASIC a ...

''(

Atari 8-bit family The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 as the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The series was successively upgraded to Atari 1200XL , Atari 600XL, Atari 800XL, Atari 65XE, Atari 130XE, Atari 800XE ...

)'' : The standard cartridge-based interpreter for the Atari 400/800 personal computers and successors. On later machines, such as the

Atari 800XL The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 as the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The series was successively upgraded to Atari 1200XL , Atari 600XL, Atari 800XL, Atari 65XE, Atari 130XE, Atari 800XE, ...

, this was built into the ROM. ; Atari Microsoft BASIC ''(

)'' : ROM cartridge plus disk-based extensions. ;

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile tel ...

: interpreter and compiler for the AT&T UNIX PC (3B1). ; AttoBasic : ROM-resident interpreter, executes from on-chip RAM ''(

Atmel AVR AVR is a family of microcontrollers developed since 1996 by Atmel, acquired by Microchip Technology in 2016. These are modified Harvard architecture 8-bit RISC single-chip microcontrollers. AVR was one of the first microcontroller families ...

)'' ;

Atom BASIC Acorn System BASIC and Atom BASIC are two closely related dialects of the BASIC programming language developed by Acorn Computers for their early microcomputers like the Acorn System 3 and Acorn Atom. Developed in-house, they have a number of s ...

''( Acorn Atom)'' : ; AutoIt ''( Microsoft Windows)'' : automates other programs, e.g. with simulated mouse clicks. Interpreted. GUI. Creates EXEs.

B

;

B32 Business Basic B32 Business Basic was a competitor to Data General Business Basic written by Murray Haszard in 1986. It ran on the Data General Eclipse MV line of computers initially, and was ported to Unix in 1989 and to DOS in 1991. B32 Software was the company ...

: ''(

Data General Eclipse MV The Data General Eclipse line of computers by Data General were 16-bit minicomputers released in early 1974 and sold until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the Data General Nova, but included support for virtual mem ...

Unix Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...

, DOS)'' ;

BaCon Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central ingredient (e.g., the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sa ...

: ''(

, BSD,

Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...

)'' — Basic to C converter implemented both in BaCon(for good performance) and shell script(for bootstrapping). ;

BAIT Bait may refer to: General * Bait (luring substance), bait as a luring substance ** Fishing bait, bait used for fishing Film * ''Bait'' (1950 film), a British crime film by Frank Richardson * ''Bait'' (1954 film), an American noir film by Hu ...

: short for BASIC (Almost) InTerpreter was an experimental BASIC interpreter written in Atari (8-bit) BASIC for Compute! Magazine by Bill Wilkinson. ; Bas : ''(

)'' — Interpreter for the classic BASIC dialect ; Bas7 : ''(

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...

, BSD, Microsoft Windows,

)'' A BASIC interpreter, written in

Seed7 Seed7 is an extensible general-purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. It is syntactically similar to Pascal and Ada. Along with many other features, it provides an extension mechanism.Daniel Zingaro"Modern Extensible Languages ...

, which is compatible to

GW-BASIC GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA. Functionally identical to BASICA, its BASIC interpreter is a fully self-contained executable and does not need the Cassette BASIC ROM found in the ori ...

and other old BASIC dialects ;

Banna Basic Banna may refer to: * Banna (Battagram), a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Banna (Birdoswald), a Roman Birdoswald in Cumbria in England *Banna, Bangladesh, a town in Barisal, Bangladesh * Banna, Ilocos Norte, a municipality in the Philippin ...

: ''( Microsoft Windows)'' — putatively under development by Leodescal Softwares; the first officially launched version is supposed to produce stand-alone executables ; BASCOM : Compilers for the 8051 and AVR chips ; Basic+ : programming language for OpenInsight ;

BASIC 2.0 Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET of 1977 to the C128 of 1985. The core is based on 6 ...

: (see Commodore BASIC) ;

BASIC 7.0 Commodore BASIC, also known as PET BASIC or CBM-BASIC, is the dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Commodore International's 8-bit home computer line, stretching from the PET of 1977 to the C128 of 1985. The core is based on 6 ...

: (see Commodore BASIC) ; BASIC A+ : ''(

)'' — An extended BASIC for the

, by Optimized Systems Software ;

BASIC Advanced The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interp ...

: See ''

IBM BASICA The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Micr ...

'' ;

BASIC Programming ''BASIC Programming'' is an Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) cartridge that teaches simple computer programming using a dialect of BASIC. Written by Warren Robinett and released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, this BASIC inte ...

: (

Atari CX-2620 Atari () is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French publisher Atari SA through a subsidiary named Atari Interactive. The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, Cal ...

) was a simple attempt of the BASIC language for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System ;

BASIC XE Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was a company that produced disk operating systems, programming languages with integrated development environments, and applications primarily for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. OSS was best known f ...

: ''(

)'' — An enhanced version of BASIC XL, by Optimized Systems Software ; BASIC XL : ''(

)'' — Improved BASIC for the

, by Optimized Systems Software ;

Basic4GL Basic4GL (B4GL; from ''Basic for openGL'') is an interpreted, open source version of the BASIC programming language which features support for 3D computer graphics using OpenGL. While being interpreted, it is also able to compile programs on top ...

: Fast interpreter meant for OpenGL graphical programming, especially games ;

BASIC-11 BASIC-11 was a dialect of the basic language for PDP-11 operating systems such as RSX-11, RT-11, TSX and TSX-Plus.

: ''( DEC

PDP-11 The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of all models were so ...

, RSX-11)'' ; Basic-256 : ''( Microsoft Windows,

)'' — BASIC IDE with text and graphics output, written to introduce children to programming. Originally known as KidBASIC. ; BASIC-52 : BASIC for the Intel 8052 microcontroller chip ; BASIC-68K : structured BASIC for the SORD M68/M68MX computers running in CP/M-68K mode ; BASIC-E : (a.k.a. ''submarine BASIC'') ''( CP/M)'' ; BASIC-II : structured BASIC for 8-bit SORD computers ; BASIC Plus 2 : ''(DEC

: RSTS/E, RSX-11)'' ; BASIC-PLUS : ''(DEC

: RSTS/E) '' ; BASIC/UX : HP BASIC for HP-UX, version of Rocky Mountain BASIC ; BASIC/WS : HP BASIC Workstation ; BASIC/Z : ''(CP/M, MDOS)'' ; BASIC09 : ''( OS-9 and

OS-9 68K OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. It was purchased by Radisys Corp in 2001 ...

on Motorola 6809 and

68K The Motorola 68000 series (also known as 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors. During the 1980s and early 1990s, they were popular in personal computers and workstations and w ...

CPUs, respectively)'' ; BASICA : (a.k.a. ''BASIC Advanced'', ''Advanced BASIC'') ''( DOS on the PC)'' by

. Available in ROM on

IBM PC The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a tea ...

s. Later disk based versions for

IBM PC DOS IBM PC DOS, an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System, is a discontinued disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles. It was manufactured and sold by IBM from the early 1980s into the 2000s. Developed by Microsoft, it was als ...

. ; BASICODE : ''(Many 8-bit home computers, including KC 85)'' A subset common to many platform-specific BASICs, enabling interoperability. ;

Basic For Qt Basic For Qt is the successor of KBasic and an object-oriented framework related to VB.NET and Visual BASIC, as well as an integrated development environment. It is designed to run on multiple platforms. Pre-compiled binaries are available for M ...

: ''(

and

Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...

)'' — Platform independent BASIC. Object-oriented

Visual Basic Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to: * Visual Basic .NET (now simply referred to as "Visual Basic"), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET * Visual Basic (c ...

-like Basic variant. Based on Qt. (previously, KBASIC) ; BasiEgaXorz : ''(

Sega Genesis The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit Fourth generation of video game consoles, fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master Syst ...

)'' — for the

;

batari BASIC '' Duck Attack! (2010)'' Atari 2600 homebrew is a term describing hobbyist-developed games for the Atari 2600 video game console. The first such game was written in 1995, and more than 100 have been released since then. The majority of games are ...

: version primarily used for homebrew Atari 2600 development. ; BBC BASIC : Originally for the

Acorn The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera '' Quercus'' and ''Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains one seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and bo ...

BBC Micro The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers in the 1980s for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. Designed with an empha ...

, but has since been ported to

RISC OS RISC OS is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England. First released in 1987, it was designed to run on the ARM chipset, which Acorn had designed concurrently for use in its new line of Archi ...

, Tiki 100, Cambridge Z88, Amstrad NC100, CP/M,

ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum () is an 8-bit home computer that was developed by Sinclair Research. It was released in the United Kingdom on 23 April 1982, and became Britain's best-selling microcomputer. Referred to during development as the ''ZX81 Colou ...

, DOS, Microsoft Windows and many others. A GPL clone of BBC BASIC named Brandy written in portable C is also available (

, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD,

, AmigaOS, DOS). Also a port made for the Commodore 64 by

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, written by Julian Gardner. ; Bazic '86 : See '' Northstar BASIC'' ; BBx : ''( Microsoft Windows,

)'' — Cross-platform program development language derived from Business Basic. ;

BCX BCX is a free, open source BASIC to C/C++ computer language translator started by Kevin Diggins in 1999. The current official BCX website https://BcxBasicCoders.com came online in October 2019, following several years of non-development. Maintenanc ...

: small command line tool that inputs a BCX BASIC source code file and outputs a 'C' source code file which can be compiled with many C or C++ compilers. ;

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: ;

Beta BASIC Beta BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Sinclair Research ZX Spectrum microcomputer, written by Dr Andrew Wright in 1983 and sold by his one-man software house BetaSoft. BetaSoft also produced a regular newsletter/magazine, BetaNews. Original ...

: BASIC toolkit that extended

Sinclair BASIC Sinclair BASIC is a dialect of the programming language BASIC used in the 8-bit home computers from Sinclair Research and Timex Sinclair. The Sinclair BASIC interpreter was made by Nine Tiles Networks Ltd. History Sinclair BASIC was or ...

. ; BetterBASIC : BASIC implementation by Summit Software Technologies, first available in the early 1980s. It was later maintained by Michael Poremski. ;

BI-280 Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from Numeral (linguistics), numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: * unicycle, bicycle, tricycle (1 ...

: Business BASIC interpreter ( CP/M, MP/M) by Control C Corporation, Beaverton, Oregon. ; Blitz3D : ''( Microsoft Windows)'' Fast compiler made for 3D game programming, with

DirectX Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direc ...

7 support. ; Blitz BASIC : ''(

)'' — Fast compiler meant for game programming. Windows version with

support. Discontinued, replaced by

BlitzPlus Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. ...

. ;

BlitzMax Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. T ...

: ''(

macOS macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...

)'' — Fast and compact object-oriented compiler meant for several tasks, most notably Game programming with

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve ha ...

and

support (DirectX support is

only). ;

: ''( Microsoft Windows)'' Fast compiler made for 2D game programming and WinAPI event based interpreted programming. Supports both

and

. ;

Blunt Axe Basic Blunt may refer to: * Blunt (surname), a surname (and list of people with the name) * Blunt (cigar), a term used in the cigar industry to designate blunt-tipped, usually factory-rolled cigars * Blunt (cannabis), a slang term used in cannabis cul ...

: (a.k.a. ''BXBASM'') ''(Win32, Linux)'' Bxbasic is presented as a programming tutorial, to develop and construct a Console Mode Scripting Engine and Byte Code Compiler. ;

BS Basic BS, B.S., Bs or bs may refer to: Arts and entertainment *BS-, a prefix for all games broadcast for the Satellaview modem via the Japanese Broadcasting Satellite system * "B.S." (song), a song by Jhené Aiko from the album ''Chilombo'' *Team BS ...

:Used on the

Bandai RX-78 The Bandai RX-78 is a Japanese 8-bit microcomputer manufactured by Bandai. Its name comes from the RX-78-2 Gundam. It was released in July 1983, and employed a SHARP LH0080A ( Zilog Z80A clone) CPU. It ran at a clock speed of 4.1 MHz, a ...

computer ; Bsisith : Hebrew dialect. ; BT-Basic : Board Test Basic, used by HP (later Agilent, then Keysight) to develop and run test programs in an in-circuit test environment ; BURP : Basic Using Reverse Polish, used by the very early PSI Comp 80 "scientific computer", as published in the British radio enthusiasts magazine Wireless World ; Business Basic : name given collectively to BASIC variants which were specialized for business use on minicomputers in the 1970s. ;

bwBASIC This is an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects — interpreted and compiled variants of the BASIC programming language. Each dialect's platform(s), i.e., the computer models and operating systems, are given in parentheses along with any ot ...

: See ''Bywater BASIC'' ;

BWBASIC This is an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects — interpreted and compiled variants of the BASIC programming language. Each dialect's platform(s), i.e., the computer models and operating systems, are given in parentheses along with any ot ...

: " ByteWide BASIC", a stand-alone Z-80

bitwise In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It is a fast and simple action, basic to the higher-level arithmetic oper ...

port of Tiny BASIC - co developed by Pro-Log Corporation and ByteWide Systems, Australia. Intended for control applications. ; BXBASM : See ''Blunt_Ane_Basic'' ;

Bywater BASIC This is an alphabetical list of BASIC dialects — interpreted and compiled variants of the BASIC programming language. Each dialect's platform(s), i.e., the computer models and operating systems, are given in parentheses along with any ot ...

: (a.k.a. ''bwBASIC'') — an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

interpreter for DOS and

POSIX The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines both the system- and user-level application programming inte ...

. Bwbasic contains only a small portion of the ANSI BASIC commands. Its main advantage is that one can also use shell commands in programs, an unusual feature in any BASIC implementation. It could theoretically be used as the main shell on a DOS or POSIX system, with some advantages.

C

;

CA-Realizer CA-Realizer was a BASIC-language software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, ...

: dialect similar to VisualBasic by Computer Associates, last version 3.0, no longer under development/supported ;

Caché Basic Cache, caching, or caché may refer to: Places United States * Cache, Idaho, an unincorporated community * Cache, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Cache, Oklahoma, a city in Comanche County * Cache, Utah, Cache County, Utah * Cache County, ...

: One of the two scripting languages in the '' Caché''

Database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

; CARDBASIC : version of BASIC operated by cards available in Dartmouth when that language was created and described in the original manual ; Casio BASIC : used in Casio calculators ; Cassette BASIC : An interpreter on IBM and IBM compatible PCs to which the machine will default if no operating system is detected. ; CBASIC ''(CP/M, DOS)'' : BASIC-E successor. ; CBASIC : standard interpreter for 8-bit SORD computers (M23, M68 in Z80 mode, etc.), a.k.a. APU BASIC when the arithmetic processor is installed ; cbasPad Pro : See '' HotPaw Basic'' ; CBM BASIC : See '' Commodore BASIC'' ; CellularBASIC :

Java ME Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for embedded and mobile devices (micro-controllers, sensors, gateways, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, TV set-top ...

on-phone mobile interpreter for Java-enabled handheld devices, mobiles, smartphones, and PDAs ; Chinese BASIC : Several Chinese-translated BASIC languages developed in the early 1980s. ;

Chipmunk Basic Chipmunk Basic is a freeware interpreter for the BASIC programming language maintained by Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Macintosh and has been ported to Linux and Microsoft Windows. The "windowed" Macintosh versi ...

: ''(

Apple Macintosh The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and software ...

, CLI ports for Win32, Linux)'' — copyrighted freeware ; CGIbasic : small and fast interpreter for web-scripting. ; CipherLab Basic : tool to develop application programs for CipherLab 8 Series Mobile Computers using BASIC programming language ; CocoaBasic : ''(

)'' — Object-oriented dialect for using the

Cocoa Cocoa may refer to: Chocolate * Chocolate * ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree * Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao'' * Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...

Framework ; CognosScript : ''( IBM Corporation

Cognos Cognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in ove ...

)'' Similar to Visual Basic, used in Cognos business intelligence applications. ; Color BASIC : ''( Tandy /

RadioShack RadioShack, formerly RadioShack Corporation, is an American retailer founded in 1921. At its peak in 1999, RadioShack operated over 8,000 worldwide stores named RadioShack or Tandy Electronics in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Austra ...

TRS-80 Color Computer)'' ; Commodore BASIC : (a.k.a. ''CBM BASIC'') ''(Various computers in

CBM CBM may refer to: Businesses and corporations * Cambrex Corporation (NYSE: CBM) * CBM (AM), a radio station in Montreal now known as CBME-FM * CBM-FM, a radio station in Montreal * CBM TV, a scrapped Freeview channel * Central Bank of Myanmar * Che ...

's line of 8-bit computers)'' — Was integrated in the ROM of

's 8-bit computers. Built on an early version of 6502

Microsoft BASIC Microsoft BASIC is the foundation software product of the Microsoft company and evolved into a line of BASIC interpreters and compiler(s) adapted for many different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first ...

. There were several versions — the best-known was ''Commodore Basic V2'', as used in the Commodore 64. ; Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS : DEC BASIC, renamed after DEC was acquired by Compaq. Now called VSI BASIC for OpenVMS. ; CoolBasic : ''(

)'' — A variant suited for game programming with

. :fi:Coolbasic ; CPX-Basic : ''( Atari ST)'' — An enhanced port of

running as a control panel inside Atari's XControl. ;

Creative Basic Creative may refer to: * Creativity, phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created * "Creative" (song), a 2008 song by Leon Jackson * Creative class, a proposed socioeconomic class * Creative destruction, an economic term * Creative ...

: (Windows) ; Cubloc Basic : ''( Comfile Technologies)'' — Interpreter for the Cubloc controller ; ( Cybiko) : Interpreter for the Cybiko Handheld Computer for Teens ;

Cybiko B2C The Cybiko is a Russian handheld computer introduced in the United States by David Yang's company Cybiko Inc. as a retail test market in New York on April 2000, and rolled out nationwide in May 2000. It is designed for teens, featuring its own t ...

: ''( Cybiko)'' — A BASIC to C compiler for the Cybiko Handheld Computer for Teens ;

Cypress BASIC Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word ''cypress'' is derived from Old French ''cipres'', which was imported from Latin ''cypressus'', the ...

: (Windows) — a royalty-free VBA compatible scripting engine embedded, e.g., within HP's AssetCenter product for implementing customizations

D

; D3/Pick : See: ''Pick/BASIC'' for use on the Pick Operating System ;

DAI BASIC Dai may refer to: Names * Dai (given name), a Welsh or Japanese masculine given name * Dai (surname) (戴), a Chinese surname Places and regimes * Dai Commandery, a commandery of the state of Zhao and in early imperial China * Dai County, in ...

: a very early BASIC interpreter for the

Intel 8080 The Intel 8080 (''"eighty-eighty"'') is the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel. It first appeared in April 1974 and is an extended and enhanced variant of the earlier 8008 design, although without binary compati ...

based DAI Personal Computer that used java-like pre-compilation. ;

DarkBASIC The Game Creators Ltd (TGC; formerly Dark Basic Software Limited) is a British software house based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which specialises in software for video game development, originally for the Microsoft Windows platform. ...

DarkBASIC Professional The Game Creators Ltd (TGC; formerly Dark Basic Software Limited) is a British software house based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which specialises in software for video game development, originally for the Microsoft Windows platform. ...

: ''(

)'' — Efficient compiler for game programming. ;

Dartmouth BASIC Dartmouth BASIC is the original version of the BASIC programming language. It was designed by two professors at Dartmouth College, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. With the underlying Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), it offered an inte ...

: the ''original'' BASIC version. It was a compiler. Later versions included MAT statements for matrix operations. See also ''True BASIC''. ; Data General Business Basic : ''( Data General Nova and later DG minicomputers)'' ; Data/BASIC : See: ''Pick/BASIC'' for use on the Pick Operating System ; Databasic : See: ''Pick/BASIC'' for use on the Pick Operating System ; DBASIC : fast nonstandard BASIC for the Atari ST written entirely in machine language ; DEC BASIC : Formerly VAX BASIC; renamed after VAX/VMS was ported to Alpha processors and renamed

OpenVMS OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Customers using Ope ...

. Now called VSI BASIC for OpenVMS due to corporate acquisitions. ;

Decimal BASIC The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers of the Hindu–Arabic nu ...

: Japanese multi-platform Basic interpreter compatible almost 100% with ISO/IEC 10279:Full BASIC 1991 or later ;

Dr. T's T-BASIC Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...

: ''( Atari ST)'' — A BASIC variant for the ST designed specifically to interface with a high-end MIDI sequencer. ; DragonBASIC : for GBA handheld video game; also useful for Nintendo DS homebrew. Dragon Basic is a sort of cross-compiler with IDE that runs on Microsoft Windows. ;

D-Lib ''D-Lib Magazine'' was an online magazine dedicated to digital library research and development. Past issues are available free of charge. The publication was financially supported by contributions from the D-Lib Alliance. Prior to April 2006, th ...

: for ( Microsoft Windows) is a

BASIC

compiler In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the ''source'' language) into another language (the ''target'' language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that ...

that creates

bytecode Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references (norma ...

executables.

E

; Easy AMOS : See ''AMOS BASIC'' ;

Emergence Basic In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Emergen ...

: ''(

)'' ;

Envelop Basic Envelopment is the military tactic of seizing objectives in the enemy's rear with the goal of destroying specific enemy forces and denying them the ability to withdraw. Rather than attacking an enemy head-on as in a frontal assault an envelopmen ...

: ''(

)'' —

clone Clone or Clones or Cloning or Cloned or The Clone may refer to: Places * Clones, County Fermanagh * Clones, County Monaghan, a town in Ireland Biology * Clone (B-cell), a lymphocyte clone, the massive presence of which may indicate a pathologi ...

. ;

Envision Basic Envision may refer to: Organizations * Envision EMI, a management company based in Virginia, USA * Envision Energy, a wind turbine manufacturer and energy technology company based in Shanghai, China * Envision Financial, a financial instituti ...

Epson SPEL+
: ''(

)'' — SPEL+ is a BASIC-like programming language that runs in the Epson robot controllers. It supports multitasking, motion control, and I/O control. ; ESP8266 BASIC : ''( ESP8266 and NodeMCU) -'' An open-source basic interpreter specifically tailored for the internet of things. Self-hosting browser-based development environment. ; ethosBASIC : ''(

)'' — ethosBASIC is a new BASIC development system made to create

computer game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device to generate visual feedback. This feedbac ...

s. ; Extended Color BASIC : ''( TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32/64)''

F

; FaST Basic : ''( Atari ST)'' ; Famicom BASIC : ''(

Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American ...

)'' — For the

. ; FBSL : ''(

WinE Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are ...

)'' — ''FREESTYLE Basic Script Language'' ;

FirST Basic First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: * World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...

: ''( Atari ST)'' ;

FreeBASIC FreeBASIC is a free and open source multiplatform compiler and programming language based on BASIC licensed under the GNU GPL for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode MS-DOS ( DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox. The Xbox version is no lon ...

: ''(DOS (DPMI32), MS Windows and Linux)'' — An

( GPL) BASIC compiler, that employs a similar syntax to QuickBASIC's, with more advanced features like

pointer Pointer may refer to: Places * Pointer, Kentucky * Pointers, New Jersey * Pointers Airport, Wasco County, Oregon, United States * The Pointers, a pair of rocks off Antarctica People with the name * Pointer (surname), a surname (including a list ...

s and

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of " objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of ...

, it also supports a dialect specially designed to be compatible with QuickBASIC. ;

FutureBASIC FutureBasic is a free BASIC compiler for Apple Inc.'s Macintosh. It consists of an integrated development environment (IDE), editor, project manager, etc. for both PowerPC and Intel microprocessors. Since 1 January 2008, the package has c ...

: ''(Mac OS)'' — Free compiled, procedural, provides access to Carbon API (Mac OS Toolbox), GUI and file system of System 6 to Mac OS X ;

FUZE BASIC In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates function. In some applications, such as torpedoes, a fuze may be identified by function as the exploder. The relative complexity of even the earliest fuze d ...

: ''(MS Windows and Linux)'' — Highly modernized adaptation of classic BASIC.

G

;

Galaksija BASIC Galaksija BASIC was the BASIC interpreter of the Galaksija build-it-yourself home computer from Yugoslavia. While being partially based on code taken from TRS-80 Level 1 BASIC, which the creator believed to have been a Microsoft BASIC,Antonić, ...

: ''( Galaksija)'' —

Firmware In computing, firmware is a specific class of computer software that provides the low-level control for a device's specific hardware. Firmware, such as the BIOS of a personal computer, may contain basic functions of a device, and may provide ...

version for Galaksija home computer. ; Gambas : ''(

/ Cygwin)'' — A

rapid application development Rapid application development (RAD), also called rapid application building (RAB), is both a general term for adaptive software development approaches, and the name for James Martin's method of rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to ...

environment for BASIC on

by Benoît Minisini. Similar approach as

. ; GamesBasic : Free

object-oriented Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of " objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of ...

BASIC variant meant for game programming. ; GBasic : ''( DOS on the PC)'' — Interpreter with many

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ...

routines. ; GBasic : ''( on the ZVT PP 01)'' — Interpreter with many graphics routines, Made in Czechoslovakia 80's ; G-BASIC : version of SORD CBASIC with SORD Graphic Language extensions for the M23 with graphics board ; GeoBASIC : ''(

Leica Leica Camera AG () is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, rifle scopes and microscopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany. ...

TPS 1000/1100 surveying stations)'' ; geoBASIC : ''( Commodore 64)'' — For use with

GEOS #REDIRECT GEOS {{redirect category shell, {{R from other capitalisation{{R from ambiguous page ...

;

GFA BASIC GFA BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language, by Frank Ostrowski. The name is derived from the company ("GFA Systemtechnik GmbH"), which distributed the software. In the mid-1980s to the 1990s it enjoyed popularity as an advanced BA ...

: ''(Atari ST, Amiga, DOS, Windows)'' — Originally conceived on the Atari ST where it became one of the most popular BASICs for that platform (it almost became a standard language for the Atari ST). Was later ported to the

, DOS and

. ; GLBasic : ''(main target platforms:

, Apple iPhone,

Pocket PC A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs. The name was introduced by Microsoft in 200 ...

. IDE environment: Windows)'' — optimized for games ;

Gnome Basic A gnome is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its charac ...

: ''(

)'' — project to develop a

compatible

for Gnome. During development, the project was discontinued. ;

Graphics BASIC Graphics BASIC is a third-party extension to the Commodore BASIC V2.0 programming language of the Commodore 64 computer. It was originally written in 1983 by Ron Gilbert and Tom McFarlane. The program was licensed to Hesware, which briefly sold ...

: ''( Commodore 64)'' — extension to the original Commodore 64 BASIC V2. ;

Great Cow BASIC Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" * Artel Great ( ...

: ''(Microchip PIC , AVR & LGT (Logic Green Technologies))'' — Open source compiler for 8-bit architecture PIC, AVR and LGT microcontrollers. ;

: ''( DOS and

)'' by

. BASICA compatible; independent of IBM ROM routines. Came with versions of

MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few oper ...

before 5.0. Included music macro language and advanced loops.

H

;

HBasic HBasic is an integrated development environment used to create, execute and debug programs with a Basic language. HBasic has object-oriented features either in combination with precompiled C++ components (shared libraries) or class definitions (HB ...

: ''(

)'' — Object-oriented

IDE. HBasic based on Qt IDE and a BASIC dialect. Similar approach as

. ; HiSoft Basic : ''(Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum)'' ;

High Tech BASIC Rocky Mountain BASIC (also RMB or RM-BASIC) is a dialect of the BASIC programming language created by Hewlett-Packard. It was especially popular for control of automatic test equipment using GPIB. It has several features which are or were un ...

: Version of Rocky Mountain BASIC by TransEra ; HotBasic : ''(Win32, Linux)'' — Simple but powerful compiler, emits machine code. Supports GUI, console, CGI, and database programming. ; HotPaw Basic : (a.k.a. ''yBasic'', née ''cbasPad Pro'') ''(

Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provi ...

)'' — Interpreter with GUI and sound functions. ; HP BASIC : The original Version of Rocky Mountain BASIC ; HP Instrument BASIC : Another name for HP Rocky Mountain BASIC ; HRAST-BASIC : For HP-48G/G+/GX, HP-49G and HP-49G+/50G calculators. ; HP BASIC for OpenVMS : Originally VAX BASIC; renamed to DEC BASIC after VAX/VMS was ported from VAX to Alpha processors; renamed to Compaq BASIC after

Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to a 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced ...

acquired DEC; renamed to HP BASIC for OpenVMS name after HP acquired Compaq. Now known as VSI BASIC for OpenVMS. ; HP Basic : version on the HP 39 and 40 programmable calculators. ; HP Time-Shared BASIC : ''( HP 2100 line of

minicomputer A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller general purpose computers that developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, ...

s)'' ; HTBasic : Version of Rocky Mountain BASIC by TransEra ;

Hummingbird Basic WinWrap Basic (WWB) by Polar Engineering, Inc. is a third-party macro language based on Visual Basic used with programmes of various types which its vendor touts as an alternative to ActiveX (e.g. VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, Rexx-based WSH ...

: The automation facility in Hummingbird Connectivity; it replaced WinWrap Basic after version 4 ; HuBASIC : For the Samsung

SPC-1000 The SPC-1000 is the first Z80-based personal computer produced by Samsung. It was developed in South Korea, with built-in ''HuBASIC'' BASIC written by Hudson Soft in Japan. The computer features a 4 MHz processor and 64 KB of RAM. Histo ...

, Sharp

MZ-700 The Sharp MZ is a series of personal computers sold in Japan and Europe (particularly Germany and Great Britain) by Sharp beginning in 1978. History Although commonly believed to stand for "Microcomputer Z80", the term MZ actually has i ...

and Sharp X1, written in 1982 by Hudson Soft in Japan.

I

; IBasic : ''(

)'' — With Windows API and

support. ; IBM Cassette BASIC : ''( PC)'' — Built into the first

s. Ran independently of DOS and used audio cassettes as a storage medium. ; IBM VS-BASIC : Mainframe hybrid compiler/interpreter implementation frequently used with such operating systems as McGill University's MUSIC/SP. ; ICPL : ''( Computervision CADDS-2/VLSI)'' — Interpreter tied into an integrated circuit design

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

. ; INFOBASIC : Used on Prime Computers, a variant of Pick BASIC for use on the Pick Operating System ;

: ''(

)'' —

Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, inventor, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, with business partner Steve Jobs, he c ...

's own creation. Originally known simply as ''"Apple BASIC"''. For the BASICs available at the time, it was very fast and

memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered ...

-efficient. Only supported

integer An integer is the number zero (), a positive natural number (, , , etc.) or a negative integer with a minus sign ( −1, −2, −3, etc.). The negative numbers are the additive inverses of the corresponding positive numbers. In the language ...

s. Came as standard on the Apple I and original

Apple II The Apple II (stylized as ) is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak; Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple II's foam-mold ...

;

Initial Programming Language In a written or published work, an initial capital, also referred to as a drop capital or simply an initial cap, initial, initcapital, initcap or init or a drop cap or drop, is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph tha ...

: ''(

)'' Uses dialog boxes for every command and directs essential message queue messages to predefined functions discarding the rest. Tries to keep to the spirit of simple home computer BASICs rather than a fully featured language like Visual Basic. ;

Internet Basic The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, p ...

: Written for use with the Comet system. Both were created by Signature Systems. ; IS-BASIC : The interpreter of the Enterprise 64 and 128 home computers, written by Intelligent Software Ltd. ; IWBasic : ''(

)'' A version of Basic that generates native machine code so no runtime libraries are needed. ; iziBasic : ''(

)'' Easy-to-use compiler that runs on Palm OS devices and emits stand-alone programs. Includes terminal mode and support for Palm OS GUI.

J

; Jabaco : simple object-oriented programming language to build applications/applets on the Java Framework. ;

Just BASIC Just or JUST may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Just (surname) * Just (given name) Arts and entertainment * ''Just'', a 1998 album by Dave Lindholm * "Just" (song), a song by Radiohead * "Just", a song from the album '' Lost and Found'' by Mudv ...

: restricted "free" version of Liberty BASIC'' (

only)'' ; JBasic : a "classic" implementation of BASIC written entirely in Java. ;

JR-BASIC JR-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language running on the Matsushita JR series of microcomputers. Although it's its own dialect, it was designed to be mostly compatible with Microsoft BASIC. Since it was developed for low-cost entr ...

: used on the

Matsushita JR series The Matsushita JR series was a line of microcomputers produced by Matsushita Electric Industrial (now Panasonic) during the 1980s. Based on the success of the Sharp MZ and NEC PC-8000 series, it was an attempt by Matsushita to enter the personal ...

home computers ; jvmBasic : An implementation of BASIC which compiles to Java Bytecode

K

; Kool-Bee : See ''KoolB'' ; KoolB : (short for ''Kool-Bee'') ''(

)'' —

Open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of