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 ...

APL, or A Programming Language, is another programming language ... it generates just as you would if you hired someone to write some basic routines for you.

NO branching (like gotos) EVER whatsoever, even though the language allowed it ... so multiple people could write and run Basic programs simultaneously. Also, if the Wang crashed during the ...

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 ...

However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and Python became the languages that were taught in schools. That said, I can't see anyone ever writing any ...

BASIC was born. BASIC lived up to its name and was fairly straightforward, making it much easier to program than writing in assembler language or punch cards. It would start on minicomputers like ...

He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s ... and how it makes larger projects very difficult to write. This is all true, but at the same time it misses the point ...

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 ...