A regular column about programming ... But as a practical language? For making shippable software? BASIC wasn’t always great. Graphics, for example, ran glacially. I tried to craft a space ...

The programming language also found its way into the business world: rudimentary database management programs and other important user applications were also being written in BASIC. As an example ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same.

This development not only marked a big first in the history of basic computer programming languages as we see it today ... influential in sparking change within the industry. “One example of this is ...

BASIC, a programming language that first appeared on May 1 ... But BASIC has not gone out of fashion; rather, it continues to evolve. For example, Microsoft Small Basic, released in 2008, has ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off his vanity license plate in 1967Adrian N. Bouchard / Dartmouth College Invented by John G.

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 ...