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 ...

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Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a ...