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BASIC is an acronym which means...

(B)eginner's (A)ll-purpose (S)ymbollic (I)nstruction (C)ode

As a part of the name already implies: (A)ll-purpose/QBASIC is a 'general purpose' programming language; which may be used to write all different sorts of programs, including...

-games

-noughts & crosses/tic tac toe

-databases

-maths

-english

-random poetry

-guess the number

-random graphics

-musical notes

-etc.

This is in direct comparison to certain other programming languages which were designed to do only one main task alone; such as...

FORTRAN/main purpose: Science/Maths

COBOL/main purpose: Business

LOGO/main purpose: Graphics

HTML/main purpose: Write/present web pages

-etc.

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