A regular column about programming ... able to write—or at least read—code. Her innovations were later folded into COBOL, the language of banking and backend systems. But it was BASIC that ...

You couldn’t imagine a similar title being applied to a volume about FORTRAN (or, today, one about Objective-C or Java ... to their language. The BASIC programs I wrote for the TRS-80 would ...

BASIC running on this operating system allowed colleges, high schools, and individuals across the country to dial into mainframe computers and write programs using the language. The impact of ...

BASIC was interactive. You knew right away,” said Charles C. Palmer, a senior lecturer in the computer science program at Dartmouth. “It was a turning point.” The programming language would ...