And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off his vanity license plate in 1967Adrian N. Bouchard / Dartmouth College Invented by John G.

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 ...

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's ...

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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 ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...