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The language was first developed solely as a standards document, written primarily by [[Dennis Allison]], a member of the Computer Science faculty at [[Stanford University]]. He was urged to create the standard by [[Bob Albrecht]] of the [[Homebrew Computer Club]]. He had seen BASIC on [[minicomputer]]s and felt it would be the perfect match for new machines like the [[Altair 8800|MITS Altair 8800]], which had been released in January 1975.

Bob and Dennis published the design document in the newsletter of the [[People's Computer Company]]. In December 1975, Dick Whipple and John Arnold created an [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] for the language that required only 3K of RAM. Bob and Dennis decided to publish this version and corrections to the original design documents in a newsletter dedicated to Tiny BASIC, which they called "[[Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics and Orthodontia|". The newsletter's title was changed to ''Dr. Dobb's Journal of ComputerTiny BASIC Calisthenics &and Orthodontia'' for the second issue"]]. In the 1976 issues several versions of Tiny BASIC, including design descriptions and full source code, were published ({{As of|2008|lc=on}} the newsletter still exists, in the form of professional programmers' magazine ''[[Dr. Dobb's Journal]]'').

== Tiny BASIC grammar ==