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, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first ... Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other programming languages were ...

whose first major company, Borland International, was a major purveyor of programming languages in the 1980s, including a version of BASIC. “But if you move away from Alaska it’s probably not ...

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today, it helped set the precedent of universities as leaders in computer science ...

Hungary also saw a generation whose first step towards programming in the 1980s was BASIC. Around 1983-1984, the programming language was being taught in specialized courses, and children were ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...