True to Tiny BASIC’s assembler roots, [Mike]’s C port makes extensive use of the “infinitely-abusable” goto statement. Kernighan and Ritchie said themselves, “code involving a goto can ...

Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C ... programming is no longer commonplace at a lot of universities, Hicks points out that colleges are still quite influential ...

“You gotta try this,” he told me, and handed over a piece of paper on which he’d handwritten a program ... software? BASIC wasn’t always great. Graphics, for example, ran glacially.

That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ...