The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

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Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Before Java, Python, and other programming languages, there was the BASIC programming language. It is important to note that programming languages existed before computers were developed. It was a way ...

Visual Components marks its 25th year of providing customers advanced 3D simulation and offline robot programming (OLP) software. CARMEL, Ind. - Feb. 26, 2025 - With a long history in software ...

Chess AI engine with GUI for Excel / Word VBA - plus VB6 (Visual Basic 6) edition as UCI/Winboard/SMP engine (ELO 3000) ...

The objective of this project was to integrate the CIELAB color difference formulas into Microsoft Excel using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). This enhancement equips Excel with the capability ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I bought a ...

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 ...

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of the Visual Basic programming language developed by Microsoft. VBA can be used for enabling UDFs, automating tasks and for accessing WinAPI ...