Without BASIC, you're not running Windows today. At about the same ... also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and ...

At the time, most software development was Windows development ... These days, programming languages and most of the basic tools are free. Back in the 1990s, we all had to buy our development ...

The BASIC programming language, developed by professors John ... it had never really been able to break away from the Microsoft Windows platform. It was only with the introduction of Microsoft's ...

We've had a lot of fun at Windows Central recapping some of ... reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800. The software would allow ...

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 ...

Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receive the attention in 2024 that it would have done in 1984 ...

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 ...