Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C and C++, which were developed by those ... a computer science professor at the University of Maryland and a programming ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off ... one about Objective-C or Java). The tome grew out of Ahl’s work as educational marketing ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

The BASIC programming language, developed by professors John ... powerful and structured programming languages such as Pascal, C and C++. Critics criticized the often confusing BASIC code.

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

This was programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history ...

BASIC was interactive. You knew right away,” said Charles C. Palmer, a senior lecturer in the computer science program at Dartmouth. “It was a turning point.” The programming language would ...

Courtesy Dartmouth Library __1964: __ In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth College run the first program in their new language, Basic. Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and ...

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever. The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe ...