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 ...

The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore ... to using BASIC. Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages like ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming ... language is still very popular in the retrocomputing scene. BASIC programs are still being developed on old systems such as the C64 or ...

BASIC was essential for Apple's early growth as well. BASIC also became a staple in home computers like the Atari 400, Commodore ... However, other programming languages were beginning to ...

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 ...