Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first ... Visual Basic. A few non-Microsoft BASIC versions, such as QuickBASIC, also kept chugging along. However, other ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped ... director of program management for Microsoft .NET, told ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved ... do with just a few English-language commands. The first program, which ran on the night of 1 May 1964, was ...