BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

The Most Basic BASIC Computer. 38 Comments ... user-programmable micros would stop reviving BASIC and choose what everybody calls a more “modern” programming language. But in BASIC, ...

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is a coding language that controls how a website is structured. HTML forms the backbone of the biggest websites on the internet, and is a basic part ...

Today, most computer users don’t see raw BASIC code when they turn on their machines. Probably nobody waits by the mailbox for a magazine or book full of code to arrive.

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 ...

Although computer programming has evolved in the years since Dr. Kurtz and Kemeny introduced their language, BASIC is “still very much alive” today, said Dag Spicer, senior curator at the ...

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 propelled generations ...