Full BASIC

Full BASIC, also called Standard BASIC or ANSI BASIC, is the international standard that defines an advanced dialect of the BASIC programming language. It was written by the ANSI X3.60 committee together with the European ECMA, working from the Structured BASIC under development at Dartmouth College, and it was ratified as ECMA-116 in 1986, as ANSI X3.113-1987 in 1987 and as ISO/IEC 10279 in 1991. The standard covers structured programming, matrix mathematics and file handling, and it grew so large that it was split into a core module and five optional add-ons. It followed Minimal BASIC, a 1977 standard that only described the original Dartmouth BASIC. The committee ran years late, and by the time its draft appeared Microsoft BASIC on home computers had become the de facto standard, so Full BASIC was largely ignored. The Dartmouth participants left to produce True BASIC, which used parts of it.