Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I ...

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 ...

BASIC creators John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. The mainframe isn’t the only technology hitting the ripe old age of 50 this year. On May 1st, the BASIC programming language, first developed by ...

Perhaps even more importantly, though, BASIC worked as a compiler. ... BASIC, the 50-Year-Old Computer Programming Language for Regular People By Bob Sorokanich Published May 1, 2014 ...

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

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking ...

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

According to the TIOBE Programming Community index, the following are the top 10 programming languages in June 2025. Python: A general-purpose programming language commonly used for back-end ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas in 1963, was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was ...

Started in '87 on an Atari ST. My first encounter with a programming language was with the infamous ST BASIC (a.k.a. The Text Adventure for BASIC-freaks). Luckily I quickly could get hands on GfA ...