With the university's full-fledged support, they designed a computer time-sharing system and a simple programming language, Basic ( Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ), which proved to be an enduring contribution to computing.
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"' QBasic "'( "'Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code "') is an IR is immediately interpreted on demand within the IDE . For its time, QBasic provided a state-of-the-art IDE, including a debugger with features such as on-the-fly expression evaluation and code modification.
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The two professors were motivated by the belief that computing was becoming so important to the economy and society that educated people should understand the technology, and they devised Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or Basic, to run on a time-shared computer at Dartmouth; students could tap into it from Teletype terminals.
