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50th Anniversary of BASIC

posted by n1 on Thursday May 01 2014, @05:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the 50-print-happy-birthday-55-goto-50 dept.

A reader called gewg_ writes:

from dartmouth.edu

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: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday May 01 2014, @02:19PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday May 01 2014, @02:19PM (#38491) Homepage Journal

    Also, BASIC was a good stepping stone to ASM. And Javascript and other more modern structured and object-oriented languages aren't.

    Also, afaik there weren't any object oriented languages that would run on a PC back then (PCs were pretty primitive).

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