History of BASIC

BASIC: The Computer Programming language

URL:http://calypso.cs.uregina.ca/Lecture/basic.html
Topic:History of BASIC
Year:1964
Summary Composer:Michelle Kwok
100 Word Summary:
Developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz is BASIC(Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), one of the most commonly used computer programming languages nowadays. It is simple and easy to understand and acts as a background for future studies in language programming.
Kemeny graduated from Princeton University as a math student specializing in logic and computing. He was once Albert Einstein's research assistant. Hoping that one day everyone would be able to enjoy the marvels of computer programming through arithmetic, he created BASIC with Kurtz.
Their efforts were further developed by the famous Paul Allen and William Gates, in 1975. This cooperation on the development of a BASIC language for the Altair personal computer pathed a way for the Microsoft Corporation, the dominant of today's computer software empire.
BASIC has not stopped from there. Interpreters(MS-DOS) and compilers(QuickBasic, Professional Development System Basic, Visual Basic) have been created, and updated versions are still rushing their way out in the market.
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