Appendix A. Visual Basic .NET
Paul Vick
Appendix A credit: Paul Vick, Microsoft Corporation. Copyright © 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The BASIC language has been a member of Microsoft's language products from the very beginning—indeed, the first product produced by Microsoft was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Every major platform produced by Microsoft has had a companion BASIC product, from BASIC-A and GW-BASIC for DOS through Visual Basic for the Windows platforms. As such, it is no surprise that one of the first languages to be ported to the .NET platform would be BASIC.
The move from Windows to .NET, though, was in many ways a much bigger and more difficult step for BASIC than the ...
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