We are all used to microcomputers with a BASIC interpreter, but how many have we seen with a C interpreter? The way C works simply doesn’t lend itself to anything but a compiler and linker ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture ... such as the BASIC interpreter that came with early personal ...

Surely BASIC ... compile cycles (on a <10 MHz Z80 or 6502 MPU, no less). On the other hand, because any errors in the code will not become apparent until the program is run by the interpreter ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language ... programming a computer involved ...

Computer enthusiasts, programmers and hobbyists may be interested to know that the discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language ... point that selling software for them would ...

Compilers are a bit ... as the application runs. The computer that’s running the high-level code must also run the interpreter in order to understand the program. Interpreters are valuable ...

Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

BASIC, a programming language that ... a new demographic of small computer owners and founding Microsoft in the process. In 1976, Steve Wozniak developed a BASIC interpreter from scratch for ...

I learned and programmed in FORTRAN on this IBM computer. I first experienced BASIC in high school ... Mind that I had never taken a course in compiler (or interpreter) writing in my life.

BASIC was interactive. You knew right away,” said Charles C. Palmer, a senior lecturer in the computer science program at Dartmouth. “It was a turning point.” The programming language would ...