"Conceptually and in terms of efficiency, BASIC could not keep up with other programming languages," says Jochen Viehoff, computer historian at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn.

BASIC wasn’t his only bête noire among programming languages: He also spewed bile ... so different in 1988 than they had been in 1983 in terms of the software available and the sweat equity ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language." Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future ...

A few non-Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and Python became the ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

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 ...

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.

marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language brought computer abilities to the non-technically trained masses. It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the ...