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Visual Basic and other BASIC variants like VBA and VBScript have been used to program everything from office suites and web content to emulators and shells. BASIC was also used as the macro language for older versions of Microsoft Word and Excel. Additionally, BASIC garnered nostalgia through its inclusion in textbooks with exercises encouraging students to experiment on computers.

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Visual Basic and other BASIC variants like VBA and VBScript have been used to program everything from office suites and web content to emulators and shells. BASIC was also used as the macro language for older versions of Microsoft Word and Excel. Additionally, BASIC garnered nostalgia through its inclusion in textbooks with exercises encouraging students to experiment on computers.

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BASIC came to some video game systems, such as the Nintendo Famicom.

The various Microsoft, Lotus, and Corel office suites and related products are programmable with
Visual Basic in one form or another, including LotusScript, which is very similar to VBA 6. The Host
Explorer terminal emulator uses WWB as a macro language; or more recently the programme and
the suite in which it is contained is programmable in an in-house Basic variant known as
Hummingbird Basic. The VBScript variant is used for programming web content, Outlook 97, Internet
Explorer, and the Windows Script Host. WSH also has a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) engine
installed as the third of the default engines along with VBScript, JScript, and the numerous
proprietary or open source engines which can be installed like PerlScript, a couple of Rexx-based
engines, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Delphi, XLNT, PHP, and others; meaning that the two versions of Basic
can be used along with the other mentioned languages, as well as LotusScript, in a WSF file,
through the component object model, and other WSH and VBA constructions. VBScript is one of the
languages that can be accessed by the 4Dos, 4NT, and Take Command enhanced shells. SaxBasic
and WWB are also very similar to the Visual Basic line of Basic implementations. The pre-Office 97
macro language for Microsoft Word is known as WordBASIC. Excel 4 and 5 use Visual Basic itself
as a macro language. Chipmunk Basic, an old school interpreter similar to BASICs of the 1970s, is
available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS.

Nostalgia[edit]
The ubiquity of BASIC interpreters on personal computers was such that textbooks once included
simple "Try It In BASIC" exercises that encouraged students to experiment with mathematical and
computational concepts on classroom or home computers. Popular computer ma

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