To commemorate the special occasion, Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates has joined the fray and shared the source code that shaped the company's origins — Altair BASIC. According to the ...

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

They worked for two months on it, alongside a third friend, Monte Davidoff. Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview ...

Meanwhile, other modern languages, such as Python and JavaScript, have taken on roles similar to those once filled by BASIC. These languages prioritize simplicity, readability, and ease of use ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard ...