Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their ... to dial into mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of BASIC began to extend far beyond Dartmouth's ...

BASIC proved this at scale. But as a practical language ... This let you write code that hopscotched around: If the program got to line 120, you could tell the computer to suddenly GOTO line ...

Allen had been ruminating about the possibility of building his own BASIC even before he knew about the Altair. “There hadn’t been attempts to write a full-blown programming language for a ...