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 ... Visual Basic. A few non-Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other ...

People who got their first taste ... of writing simple Basic programs extended to writing simple DOS batch files, to macros in Lotus 1-2-3, and eventually to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications ...