The basic idea was to teach students assembly language programming by leveraging their knowledge of high level languages like C/C++ and Pascal /Delphi. At the same time, HLA was designed to allow ...

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose ... engineers developed ways to abstract away low-level programming operations with a ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming ... of Microsoft BASIC for the machine. A 1987 ad for Microsoft's QuickBASIC, a compiler version of the language aimed at advanced ...

But, for many beginners from the mid-60s to the early 80s, BASIC was their introduction to computer programming. Also: Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1,000 worth of PC parts into a ...