Once upon a time, knowing how to use a computer was virtually synonymous with knowing how to program one. And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny ...

The answer is to use a monad. A monad in functional programming is a construct that provides a way ... Hopefully, the concepts and examples presented here will provide the basic understanding you'll ...

True to Tiny BASIC’s assembler roots, [Mike]’s C port makes extensive use of the “infinitely-abusable” goto statement. Kernighan and Ritchie said themselves, “code involving a goto can ...

Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated ... and any faculty member should be able to use a computer in the classroom,” Kemeny said in 1991. It was a lofty goal ...

most programming languages use different types of structural paradigms (such as functions and object-oriented programming), but the easy-to-grasp syntax of BASIC, with its plain English keywords ...

But these days, only 4 percent of professional developers will admit to using BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages ...

So, early developers kept using BASIC and porting it to one computer ... I can't see anyone ever writing any stand-alone significant program in BASIC again. And, the very idea of someone writing ...