!!!BASIC

In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. The original BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to be able to do. The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s. 

[Wikipedia on BASIC|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC]

Basic versions for the Atari Computers

* [Atari Basic]
* [OSS Basic A+]
* [Microsoft Basic]
* [OSS Basic XL|Basic XL]
* [OSS Basic XE|Basic XE]
* [OSS Integer Basic|OSS Integer Basic]
* [TURBO-BASIC XL|TURBO-BASIC XL]
* [Hypra-Soft-Basic]
* [Altirra Basic]
* [U-Basic]
* [CTH Fast Basic|FastBasic]
* [Advan Basic]
* [Basic++|Basic plus plus]
* [Enhancements to Basic 2.1]

* [Atari Basic Differences]