True to Tiny BASIC’s assembler roots, [Mike]’s C port makes extensive use of the “infinitely-abusable” goto statement. Kernighan and Ritchie said themselves, “code involving a goto can ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off ... to do something by typing words and math statements, and it did it, right away.

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... You told the computer to do something by typing words and math statements, and it did it, right away.

That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...

He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s ... and no doubt mention will be made of the GOTO statement and how it makes larger projects very difficult to write.

This type of ad hoc programming was the design goal of Dartmouth Basic (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), and its greatest success. Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created ...

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 ...

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 ...

then we jump into some basic programming statements so we can move into an interesting programming project. Many people who start working with the Linux command line don't realize that it is unlike ...