“We needed a language that could be ‘taught’ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.” History of C and The Rise of Pascal, C++ and More. After BASIC, in 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 ...

BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught ...

Here’s the original source code for Microsoft’s very first product Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic ...