High-level languages make coding simpler for people by using words and structures that are easy to read and understand. These ...

The following is an adaption of an article which appeared in the November 2, 1984 edition of the Waterloo mathNEWS. As a programmer who has frequently been frustrated by the lack of flexibility of ...

Sure enough, in just six days, Atkinson had created a specialized version of Pascal, a high-level programming language made especially for the Apple II. According to Isaacson, “Jobs respected ...

FROM BARE METAL TO HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGES. Before the emergence of high-level programming languages, machines were embedded with hardware-specific enabling languages designed for a specific logic.

Today, most programming languages use different types of structural paradigms (such as functions and object-oriented programming), but the easy-to-grasp syntax of BASIC, with its plain English ...

Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days. Story by Dave Smith • 1w. Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer.