Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 130. Chapters: BASIC, QuickBASIC, GW-BASIC, IBM BASICA, True BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, VBScript, Visual Basic for Applications, PureBasic, PowerBASIC, Blitz BASIC, Liberty BASIC, Tiny BASIC, AMOS, XBasic, BBC BASIC, ScriptBasic, Turbo Basic, Phoenix Object Basic, Atari BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, COMAL, BASIC Programming, BSAVE, List of BASIC dialects, Comparison of C Sharp and Visual Basic .NET, BASICODE, Commodore BASIC, Color BASIC, UBASIC, ThinBasic, FreeBASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, MBASIC, REAL Studio, Sinclair BASIC, DONKEY.BAS, DarkBASIC, Beta BASIC, GFA BASIC, AutoIt, QBasic, Integer BASIC, Altair BASIC, Basic4ppc, SmallBASIC, GLBasic, HP BASIC for OpenVMS, AmigaBASIC, REALbasic, MSX BASIC, STOS BASIC, NS Basic, XBLite, Gambas, Microsoft Small Basic, Variant type, Locomotive BASIC, TI BASIC, ProvideX, QB64, SBASIC, IBM Disk BASIC, Nibbles, Mallard BASIC, Atari ST BASIC, RapidQ, BASIC Computer Games, Gorillas, Run BASIC, BBj, Family BASIC, The 3D Gamemaker, Creative Basic, Learn to Program BASIC, REAL Software, StarOffice Basic, Vilnius BASIC, Business Basic, Turbo-Basic XL, ASIC programming language, IBM Cassette BASIC, Antiryad Gx, LotusScript, WinWrap Basic, Basic-256, NorthStar BASIC, SuperBASIC, LSE, Business application language, HBasic, MapBasic, CA-Realizer, Control array, Cache Basic, BBx, BCX, X-BASIC, Gnome Basic, TBIL, G-BASIC. 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 langu...