“If you're coming from a computer science background ... that's so much easier to do in a high-level textual language than in [a graphical programming language like] Ladder Diagram, where you're going ...

This new diagram-based "language" is heavily based on something ... do with designing the underlying architecture of computer algorithms—the programs that will actually end up sensing and ...

"Some mathematicians have a talent for drawing beautiful diagrams by hand ... use familiar mathematical language while the computer crunches the instructions. A new software tool from Carnegie ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code—BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...