That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created ... has died down since the introduction of Windows, many hobbyists keep it alive.

In the past, Kemeny and Kurtz had made two unsuccessful stabs at creating computer languages ... in which classic BASIC flourished. But even though the company introduced a Windows version of ...

Computer users are often faced with the ordeal of changing the pre-set language of ... However, with some basic formatting knowledge, customising your OS is simple. This do-it-yourself procedure works ...

It wasn't the first popular language ... you're not running Windows today. At about the same time, Steve Wozniak was working on porting BASIC to the first Apple computer, the Apple I.

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library. We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for ...

Kurtz said the carping about Basic among computer professionals ... Pascal supplanted Basic as the go-to language for ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...