Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C ... programming is no longer commonplace at a lot of universities, Hicks points out that colleges are still quite influential ...

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 ...

C and C++. Critics criticized the often confusing BASIC code. The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good ...

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 ...

“You gotta try this,” he told me, and handed over a piece of paper on which he’d handwritten a program ... software? BASIC wasn’t always great. Graphics, for example, ran glacially.

which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner in mind: more specifically, kids who want to learn programming (though ...