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

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, @06:26PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday May 01 2014, @06:26PM (#38598) Homepage Journal

    I don't know Pascal so don't know if its records and fields are the same as database languages, but they came easy to me, just a different kind of array than BASIC uses.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 01 2014, @10:59PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 01 2014, @10:59PM (#38676) Journal

    I don't know Pascal so don't know if its records and fields are the same as database languages

    Pascal record is the equivalent of C struct. Don't have an equiv in Basic, so can't use an array of structs but multiple arrays of individual fields that one uses to "assemble" the structs at runtime.

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