Blitz BASIC

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Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand–based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. The languages are game-programming oriented, but are often found general-purpose enough to be used for most types of applications. Blitz Basic originated in 1990 on the Commodore Amiga platform. Following the demise of the Amiga as a commercially viable platform, Blitz was released for Microsoft Windows from the year 2000 onwards. The Blitz language evolved as new products were released, with recent incarnations offering support for more advanced programming techniques such as object-orientation and multithreading. This led to the languages losing their BASIC moniker in later years. Blitz was shelved as a commercial product around 2015 and released as free and open-source software. The original Amiga version continues as an open-source fork AmiBlitz.

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