VB

ahs

11-22-2001, 06:14 AM

What did Visual Basic stand for now again? Some thing Beginners

Flyguy

11-22-2001, 06:15 AM

What do you mean??

Banjo

11-22-2001, 06:43 AM

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Merrion

11-22-2001, 07:17 AM

According to some sources that is a backronym i.e. the acronym was made up to fit the letters.

Just like QDOS was meant to mean Quick and dirty operating system.

Banjo

11-22-2001, 07:20 AM

Yeah well, without asking Bill Gates personally, I suppose we'll never know.

Thinker

11-22-2001, 07:33 AM

Billyboy was only 8 (I believe) when Basic was invented. He is not the
father of basic. I wrote my first basic program 2 years before he did his
first version of basic. The acronym was already known at that time.

Squirm

11-22-2001, 08:06 AM

I always heard that Gates took the Dirty OS and renamed it the Disk OS, then sold it to IBM for countless millions...... just what I've heard.

Banjo

11-22-2001, 08:16 AM

And his business practices haven't changed much since images/icons/wink.gif

Thinker

11-22-2001, 08:17 AM

The O/S that Gates bought, modified and then sold IBM (and subsequently
released as MSDos V1) was originally just a 16 bit version of CP/M.

n6jah

11-23-2001, 11:02 AM

I had this clip on my computer. I can't remember where (or why) I got it...

"BASIC (standing for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
is a system developed at Dartmouth College in 1964 under the
direction of J. Kemeny and T. Kurtz. It was implemented for the G.E.225.
It was meant to be a very simple language to learn and also one that
would be easy to translate. Furthermore, the designers wished it to be a
stepping-stone for students to learn on of the more powerful languages
such as FORTRAN or ALGOL. "

From "Programming languages: History and fundamentals" by Jean E. Sammet.