During the early days of BASIC there were no interpretive versions, however with the advent of the first personal computers multiple interpretive versions of BASIC proliferated. The designers and manufacturers of the first personal computers with keyboards needed to include software to allow people to write software to use on the computers. As most other programming languages were too large to fit in the small ROM space on the machines, and not even a compiled version of BASIC would fit, interpretive BASIC was chosen. The most widespread versions were made by Microsoft.
During the early days of BASIC there were no interpretive versions, however with the advent of the first personal computers multiple interpretive versions of BASIC proliferated. The designers and manufacturers of the first personal computers with keyboards needed to include software to allow people to write software to use on the computers. As most other programming languages were too large to fit in the small ROM space on the machines, and not even a compiled version of BASIC would fit, interpretive BASIC was chosen. The most widespread versions were made by Microsoft.
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