The history of the program language BASIC, 50 years since its birth, and its spirit 1964 (Showa 39) May 1st Is one of the programming languages BASIC Was the first day to execute the order in the ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...