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.
(Score: 2) by ls671 on Thursday May 01 2014, @01:44PM
"I learned Pascal in College (UK), then moved onto Borland Delphi."
same here, but I then moved to Java.
Everything I write is lies, including this sentence.