Before Java, Python, and other programming languages, there was the BASIC programming language. It is important to note that programming languages existed before computers were developed. It was a way ...

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Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It started with a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 computer, and the rest is history. Bill and ...

The plan was to create software that would allow Altair 8800 owners to develop their own programs using the easy-to-learn BASIC programming language.

As a co-creator of the Basic programming language and a driving force behind the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), Kurtz believed that computing should be a tool for everyone, not just a ...

Thomas E Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early computers ...

Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96. Along with his colleague, John Kemeny, Kurtz's work revolutionized computing, operating systems, ...