Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

I also realized, studying that tiny two-line program, that it was an infinite loop. The computer would ... thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my ...

In keeping with the conventions of the time, the language was given a catchy-sounding ... And, of course, it was at this time that "10 GOTO 10", the one-line BASIC program that threw the C64 into an ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). It wasn't the ...