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Bill Gates shares his original Altair BASIC source code for Microsoft's 50th anniversary — "The coolest code I've ever written"
To commemorate the special occasion, Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates has joined the fray and shared the source code that shaped ... an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the ...
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The BASIC programming language turns 60
Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming ... such as Python and JavaScript, have taken on ...
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Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing
A regular column about programming ... (like JavaScript and Python) are now also interpreted on the fly. But BASIC was among the first. BASIC also created the world’s first mass open-source ...