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At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, in the basement of College Hall, Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals. When they both got back correct answers to their simple programs, time-sharing and BASIC were born. Those innovations made computing accessible to all Dartmouth students and faculty, and soon after, to people across the nation and the world.
Dartmouth's BASIC at 50 anniversary celebration was held yesterday, which included the public premier of a documentary on the history and impact of BASIC.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by jheath314 on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:03AM
QBASIC was my first language. While I admit it instilled some bad habits, such as a tendency to think in procedural rather than object-oriented terms (good old GOTO), it was approachable in a way that Pascal and C++ were not. For a little kid, being able to play with code without worrying constantly about arcane syntax rules was essential to getting hooked on programming.