For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. BASIC. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program with it, even in a rudimentary way.
Those days are gone -- Microsoft stopped including Basic with its operating system after Windows 95, a corporate spokesperson confirms. Consequently, today's desktop computers have no built-in general-purpose programming language to entice the curious.
What now?
Source: Computerworld
No comments:
Post a Comment