A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language ... of why so many BASIC game makers focused instead on text adventures ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC ... days were numbered for the text-based, command line environment in which classic BASIC flourished.

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 ...