Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog 2014-04-29
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Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
A very comprehensive history of BASIC from Time magazine.
Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50 years ago this week–at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, to be precise.