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Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic "with a future" for all platforms. The "with a future" description refers to Microsoft's 2020 announcement ...

So, with the arrival of the unifying .NET 6 and 64-bit Visual Studio 2022 releases last week, what's new in C#, F# and Visual Basic? Lots, says Microsoft's Kathleen Dollard, principal program manager, ...

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Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...