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Category of BASIC interpreters specialized for business use

Business Basic is a category of variants of the BASIC computer programming language which were specialized for business use on minicomputers in the 1970s and 1980s. To the underlying BASIC language, these dialects added record handling instructions similar to those in COBOL, allowing programmers to build complex file-handling applications using what was at that time a much more modern programming language. MAI Systems released the first example as MAI Basic Four in 1972, and several similar versions emerged through the 1970s. Wikipedia →

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  2. Skim a recent paper: Development of Digital Economy Teaching Materials: Basic Concepts of Business IntelligenceInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Introducing ComputersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Two Basic Types of Business-to-Business IntegrationCited 14 times
  5. Go sideways: List of BASIC dialectsA closely related topic
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