Not one brief BASIC program but two or three of them–accounts vary–ran simultaneously, proving both that BASIC worked and that the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System was capable of dealing with ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the ... the language of banking and backend systems. But it was BASIC that really blew the lid off. It was created in 1964 by John George ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... a more intuitive language than the Fortran and ALGOL systems of the day. What Kemeny and Kurtz came up with was a computer ...

The BASIC programming language is 50 years old this month. As you may know, BASIC was created in 1964 by Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz as a system to simplify the ...

“STOP” told the program to stop. At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, in the basement of College Hall on the Dartmouth campus, the time-sharing system and BASIC were put to a test. A professor and a ...

which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner in mind: more specifically, kids who want to learn programming (though ...