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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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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @01:26AM
Learned these among others progamming languages.
My first Pascal program was clumsily done as an ersatz BASIC program thanks to Pascal's 'goto' statement.
After a bit, I learned structured program and never looked back since.
Learning assembler made it possible to write efficient code at will in assorted HLLs like C and its variants
Now glad to use C# where Microsoft swept most of the tasks requiring lines and lines of C/C++ into a C# library call like the File.Copy method.