BASIC has been rather remarkable for it adaptability. Microsoft's Visual Basic, for instance, has managed to become a rather modern object-oriented typed langua

BASIC has been rather remarkable for it adaptability. Microsoft's Visual Basic, for instance, has managed to become a rather modern object-oriented typed language. As much flack as it gets from "real" programmers, probably more code is still written in VB than most other languages combined (although that is certainly starting to change now with the rise of open source scripting languages as well as the rise of Javascript.)