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In his Sept. 24 Computerworld column, “Five Diagrams Beat a ‘Victorian Novel’ Text Specification, ... it is in many ways the first of a new generation of computer languages.

Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, ... let's raise a glass to Kemeny and Kurtz for empowering several generations of young computer programmers. Related Stories.

BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught ...