And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off ... to do something by typing words and math statements, and it did it, right away.

The computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra so loathed this style that he wrote an entire essay inveighing against it: “Go To Statement Considered Harmful.” Anyone who learned to program on BASIC ...

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 ...

Higher-level languages are written with more functionality per statement. The code is compiled ... So, without a BASIC programming language for the Altair (and later for Apple machines), the ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). It wasn't the ...

QBASIC is a software interpreter for the BASIC programming language ... not something you’d expect from a programming language with simple loops and statements. It’s an isometric corporate ...

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 ...