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 program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). It wasn't the ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC ... Code celebrated its 60th birthday on May 1, marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language ...

Most of these later innovations were brought to us by programmers who first honed their abilities with line-programming languages like BASIC ... along with their code pigments -- along their ...

In a recent discussion in ITworld.com’s Interviews forum, Bertrand Meyer, an object-oriented software theorist and developer of the Eiffel programming ... language typically results in less code ...

When choosing a programming language ... in large program development."Eiffel is extraordinarily simple," Hiebert said. Programmers can get up to speed on the language in a matter of days ...

Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming ... language called BASIC. (The name was an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.) ...