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Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. And it was 50 ...

Fünfzig Jahre nachdem John Kemeny und Thomas Kurtz am Dartmouth-College das erste BASIC-Programm gestartet haben, blickt die Programmiersprache auf eine bewegte Geschichte zurück. Sie mag zwar in der ...

Fifty years ago this month, in 1964, a computer programming language winked to life that changed the course of a generation. While many would point to the rise of Unix and other ubiquitous programming ...