AI pidgin language based on ontologies and protocols from the
First Federation era and functional languages from the early
Information Era. Its roots can be traced back to the pre-AI
programming language LISP developed in 1955-1959 c.e. (Old Earth
reckoning) by J. McCarthy, often credited as the originator of
the term 'AI', and artificial languages such as loglan. The name
is sometimes corrupted into baisic or aisic by bioids. The core
ideas of Basic is 1) no ambiguity, 2) universality, 3)
conciseness and 4) functionality. A message in Basic should not
be ambiguous and be able to express any pre-singularity concepts
in a fairly simple way. This is done by making it a functional
language, where each 'sentence' consists of functions/verbs
acting on objects, which in turn can be functions themselves.
Basic is written, spoken or transmitted according to the low-
level Basic encoding protocols Basic 1-17. It is traditionally
written in bioid-readable form as nested parenthetical
expressions (Basic 1), while among a