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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Probably not. QBASIC is a software interpreter for the BASIC programming language that showed up in 1991, and basic it is. Here’s a little video of a game created by IBM to show off the awesome ...