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1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:21:53 -0800

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING MADE EASY

jbickers — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:25:01 -0800

"My boss told me not to work on it, because it was impossible to do on the Atari 2600 console, which had only 1/8 K of RAM and 4K of ROM." But creating the world's first video game easter egg might not even be Warren Robinett's most remarkable achievement. That honor should probably go to BASIC Programming, a cartridge that managed to turn the Atari 2600 into a programmable machine. Sure, it was limited - 128 bytes - but it was enough to do minor blips and bloops and loops. (It also worked with those totally awesome keypad controllers.) It's legacy lives on in batari Basic, a compiler that lets you create games playable on a 2600 emulator (and the Atari Age forums are full of user-created games).

Yes, but did you have GOSUB?

jammer — Fri, 14 May 2004 15:34:39 -0800

How I lost my childhood: It may seem hopelessly lame to many, but as as child I, and many others of the same time period -- the first children of the microcomputer revolution -- spent many hours in front of our shiny new home computers reverently copying in BASIC programs from source printouts in books and magazines. For some, myself included, this was the launchpad into a sexy, exciting, fascinating career as a professional geek. Now, the book that was one of my sacred texts during this time period, David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games, is available, scanned, online. [via Boing Boing]

Happy Birthday BASIC!

carter — Sat, 01 May 2004 09:14:06 -0800

Happy Birthday BASIC! On May 1 1964 two Dartmouth College professors, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first BASIC programs; and BASIC went on to become many peoples' first introduction to computer programming.

harmful — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 09:06:35 -0800

Want to become a PlayStation 2 programmer? The European release may ship with a BASIC interpreter, in order to squeak past EC tarriffs.