MCXi Basic for Android

11 things about MCXi Basic

1. The original BASIC language was designed on May 1, 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth College students under their direction.

2. Initially, BASIC concentrated on supporting straightforward mathematical work, with matrix arithmetic support from its initial implementation as a batch language, and character string functionality being added by 1965.

3. BASIC was designed to allow students to write mainframe computer programs for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System.

4. In the following years, as other dialects of BASIC appeared, Kemeny and Kurtz's original BASIC dialect became known as Dartmouth BASIC.

5. (In the 1960s, software became a chargeable commodity; until then, it was provided without charge as a service with the very expensive computers, usually available only to lease.) They also made it available to high schools in the Hanover area, and put a considerable amount of effort into promoting the language.

6. MCX BASIC development environment is very similar to that of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System associated with Dartmouth BASIC.

7. During the creation of MCX BASIC, a major effort was made to make the system as flexible and expandable as possible.

8. It has a command line-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) system; all program lines must be numbered, all non-numbered lines are considered to be commands in direct mode (i.e., to be executed immediately).

9. MCX BASIC is designed to follow GW-BASIC, which is one of the standard BASICs running on 16-bit computers.

10. MCX BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language.

11. The acronym BASIC comes from the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz.