Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical systems proves these “dinosaurs” are here to stay. While Python isn’t fast, ...

We’ve put together a guide that breaks down the basics, from what Python is all about to how you can actually start using it.

Over on YouTube [The 8-Bit Guy] shows us how the TI-99/4A home computer worked. [The 8-Bit Guy] runs us through this odd ...

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever commercial product, a simple programming language that was the entry point to ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel 8080-powered Altair 8800. As explained in a Microsoft blog, the version that's just ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Wa (Chinese name "凹", which pronounced "Wa") is a general-purpose programming language designed for for WebAssembly. The goal is to provide a simple, reliable, easy-to-use, statically typed language ...