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 ...

True to Tiny BASIC’s assembler roots, [Mike]’s C port makes extensive use of the “infinitely-abusable” goto statement. Kernighan and Ritchie said themselves, “code involving a goto can ...

The answer is to use a monad. A monad in functional programming is a construct that provides a way ... Hopefully, the concepts and examples presented here will provide the basic understanding you'll ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... and any faculty member should be able to use a computer in the classroom,” Kemeny said in 1991. It was a lofty goal ...

most programming languages use different types of structural paradigms (such as functions and object-oriented programming), but the easy-to-grasp syntax of BASIC, with its plain English keywords ...

But these days, only 4 percent of professional developers will admit to using BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages ...

So, early developers kept using BASIC and porting it to one computer ... I can't see anyone ever writing any stand-alone significant program in BASIC again. And, the very idea of someone writing ...

Students could use other popular languages of ... still a fundamental tool in teaching computer programming. One student who later benefited from BASIC was Bill Gates, who used a variation of ...