Programming languages
GW-BASIC
An early version of BASIC provided by Microsoft for the IBM PC. GW-BASIC is a dialect of BASIC and was succeeded by QBasic.
- Created by
- Microsoft
- First appeared
- 1983
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Your first program
Hello, World!
10 PRINT "Hello, World!"
20 ENDKeep learning
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