A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...

The language design used elements from several other programming languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, and others, to produce a flexible and expressive syntax. Python 2 vs. Python 3 ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually propelled generations ...