Home › Entities › non_structured_programming_language › BASIC

BASIC

programming language for beginners, mainly using familiar English words or abbreviations of them
Thing non_structured_programming_language Q42979
BASIC
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

BASIC is a non-structured programming language[1]. BASIC has Wikipedia articles in 88 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: Fortran[3], FORTRAN II[4], JOSS[5], ALGOL[6]
  • Instance of: imperative programming language[7]
  • Developer: Thomas E. Kurtz[8], John George Kemeny[9], Mary Kenneth Keller[10]
  • Subclass of: programming language[11]
  • Designed by: John George Kemeny[12]
  • Commons category: BASIC (programming language)[13]
  • Inception: 1964[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:BASIC programming language family[15]
  • File extension: bas[16]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/basic[17]
  • Different from: बेसिक[18]
  • Programming paradigm: non-structured programming[19], imperative programming[20], procedural programming[21], object-oriented programming[22]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]

Why It Matters

BASIC is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . Pioneering women in computer science. Retrieved . computinghistory.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). BASIC. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/basic
MLA “BASIC.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 13 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/basic.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_basic_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{BASIC}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/basic}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-13}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): BASIC — https://4ort.xyz/entity/basic (retrieved 2026-10-13)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/basic · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · ButterflyOFF · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → Kab-Q42979-BASIC-ButterflyOFF.ogg
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'am', 'an', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'bat_smg', 'be', 'be_x_o
    Sitelink count → 95
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Pronunciation audio: Kab-Q42979-BASIC-ButterflyOFF.ogg, Added pronunciation recorded via Wiki-Say-It! 0.2.10"
  2. 5w ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → non-structured programming language, imperative programming language
    Subclass of → programming language
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 1984, Add qualifier to File Format Wiki page ID `BASIC`"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0239788-BASIC-programovaci-jazyk
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0239788-BASIC-programovaci-jazyk, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  4. 18w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Foldoc id → BASIC
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Foldoc id: BASIC, import FOLDOC ID ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/wikibase-cli/4a1600b576016/|details]])"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase id → /m/019p2
    Library of congress authority id → sh85012076
    Microsoft academic id (discontinued) → 2780323391
    Different from → बेसिक
    + 49 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 10681, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.