In the late 1970s and early 1980s, BASIC continued its prominent role as a programming interface and quasi-operating system for popular home computers such as the Atari 800, TRS-80, Commodore VIC ...

Keeping the digital world accessible was his mantra. He envisioned a world where computing was not the domain of a select few, but a tool for all. He gave us Basic, a programming language that ...

Some of that development can last decades. For software like Microsoft Word released in 1983, for instance, programmers have been tweaking and improving it for years. "The hope is that the computer ...