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 ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

“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 ...