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excerpt: "At first glance, SuperBASIC appears to be not too different from some of the other BASICs I have been involved with. But, there is one very important difference. Here is a BASIC language that is structured. In my college BASIC course, I learned that BASIC was a computer language taught as an introduction to computer…"
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# QL Journey: Odds ‘n Ends in QDOS and SuperBasic

At first glance, SuperBASIC appears to be not too different from some of the other BASICs I have been involved with.

But, there is one very important difference. Here is a BASIC language that is structured. In my college BASIC course, I learned that BASIC was a computer language taught as an introduction to computer programming, and the student was then expected to advance to a “useful” language such as COBOL or FORTRAN. The “B” in BASIC afterall stands for “Beginner’s”.