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May 1, 1964: First Basic Program Runs

Posted May 01, 2008 8:55 AM

From Wired: Top Stories:

1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth College run the first program in their new language, Basic. Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz had been trying to make computing more accessible to their undergraduate students. One problem was that available computing languages like Fortran and Algol were so complex that you really had to be a professional to use them.

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05/02/2008 5:58 PM

Good ol' BASIC...

C stands for 'complicated'... it's just like BASIC with the line numbers removed and a shed load of bloody semicolons and parentheses stuffed in.

Don't you hate it when the compiler says...

'Expected ;' I feel like saying... 'If you sodding well expect one...try putting it in yourself and see if it makes sense!'

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