BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away
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It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receiv…
  • @[email protected]
    9•3 months ago

    F, QBASIC was the first logical programming language I learned in high school back in 2004. It was extremely outdated back then but BASIC (in it’s various forms) is hard to beat when it comes to learning the fundamentals.

    • @[email protected]
      3•3 months ago

      QBasic was my first language when I started learning around the turn of the century. I remember it being super accessible even with the limited learning resources of the time.

  • @[email protected]
    5•3 months ago

    My all-time favourite programming language was a dialect of BASIC. HiSoft BASIC on the Atari ST.

    RIP.