Serguei2 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 In 1980s, Microsoft Basic was available for most computers. It allows users to introduce programming and make short programs. How about now? Do Windows, Linux and Macintosh have language included to introduce programming to people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 It sort of depends upon what you call a programming language, but yes those operating systems do have scripting languages. Windows has BATch programs that can run from the CMD prompt. https://superuser.com/questions/349481/command-prompt-in-windows-and-linux-what-is-their-language-called Also Excel also supports VBAscript. https://360techexplorer.com/is-javascript-a-programming-language/ Linux has its own shell like CMD, bash that supports some basic programming features (if then, loops, variables, etc). I believe it also has several preinstalled programming languages. (perl, python, ruby, awk, and sed) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PowerUsersProgramming Mac since OSX has many of the same ones. https://superuser.com/questions/580687/what-scripting-programming-languages-are-default-on-mac-osx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Batch or shell scripts might not be the best way to learn programming. Today people have a wide choice of free programming languages and development environments. I keep seeing Python come up for beginners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 Just now, mr_me said: Batch or shell scripts might not be the best way to learn programming. Today people have a wide choice of free programming languages and development environments. I keep seeing Python come up for beginners. Has Python included and installed on computers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, Serguei2 said: Has Python included and installed on computers? Yes, as linked above, on Ubuntu/Mac OSX computers. I also linked to a javascript page, and mislabeled the language (VBScript). https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vbscript-in-a/1565927206/ch01s03.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 I would also second python since it is so popular these days. It's usually installed on Linux, it's not hard to add to Windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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