History
The name "BBj" was coined in 1999. It stands for "Business Basic for Java". BBj is the modern successor of BASIS's own, non-proprietary Business BASIC dialect created in 1985. Business BASIC is a derivative of BASIC oriented towards business programming.
BASIS strives to keep BBj backward compatible with preceding BBx product generations such as PRO/5, and Visual PRO/5. It is also compatible with other Business BASIC dialects provided by Thoroughbred, ProvideX and others.
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