before BASIC, most coding was. In the 1950s and ’60s you generally used machine language, which had commands like “sal 665” and “sal 667.” (Those tell the computer to move its ...

Taking its cues from popular 1960s languages like FORTRAN ... not only were most people who bought such a home computer already familiar with BASIC, it allows programs to be run without first ...

Today, most programming languages use different ... built a time-sharing system to open computer access to all at Dartmouth. The simplicity and power of BASIC quickly made it a favorite among ...

As with BASIC itself, BASIC Computer Games predated the PC ... undocumented things to work around the language’s limitations–most of all its sluggishness, another fact Kemeny and Kurtz weren ...

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...