A regular column about programming ... before BASIC, most coding was. In the 1950s and ’60s you generally used machine language, which had commands like “sal 665” and “sal 667.” ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming ... to languages commonly used at the time, such as FORTRAN or Algol, BASIC was intended to make do with just a few English-language commands.

Case in point: Vision BASIC is a customized, special version of the BASIC programming language with a ton of ... There are new commands, including ALLMOBS for setting up all sprites with a single ...

Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language ... system and BASIC were put to a test. A professor and a student programmer typed a simple command, “RUN ...

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 ...

On May 1st, the BASIC programming language, first developed by Dartmouth College Professors Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny, celebrates 50 years. At the time, computers were highly serial.