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Nomen est omen: BASIC stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Even 60 years later, the programming language still lives up to this claim.

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 ...