This is part of why so many BASIC game makers focused instead on text adventures: Words ... started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages ...

BASIC wasn’t his only bête noire among programming languages ... clear that applications as tools for word processing, etc. would overshadow languages and we needed to build a word processor ...

As a programming language, BASIC was generally reviled by digital ... (Many schools would, instead, teach word processing and call it computer science, she complains.) This year the number is ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language ... was simple. Typing the command “RUN” would start a program. “PRINT” printed a word or string of ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...