Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language ... generations of young computer programmers.

That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which ...

Over the past five decades, computer scientists have built increasingly intuitive programming languages ... also wrote many textbooks and taught generations of students as they defined how ...