BASIC also had a few truly ill-considered elements ... Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages like Python and JavaScript.

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 ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas ... allows kids to use computer programming elements to create animations, games and interactive stories, reports an ...

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 ...

As the name implies, it adds a visual, drag-and-drop element to coding simple ... named Visual Basic as the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row. While Visual Basic ...

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.

See C. Pronounced "C-sharp." A Microsoft .NET language based on C++ with elements from Visual Basic and Java. See .NET Framework. Web-based programming language from Google. Introduced in 2011 ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...