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 ...

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 ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off his vanity license plate in 1967Adrian N. Bouchard / Dartmouth College Invented by John G.

A few non-Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and Python became the ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's ...

BASIC lacks more rich functionality ... in hardware led to a boom of new languages in the following decade. Programming languages would step forward once more in the 1990s, with high-level ...

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 ...

Python has that operator ( / is floating point, // is integer division), and it's sometimes very useful. And the % remainder operator is super useful for working with modulo math. I have no idea ...