wraggster
May 1st, 2014, 22:49
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/86463fc6fc59b694cbb9c8867a73940/200083272/EngBASIC_fullbleed.png (http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/01/basic-programming-language-50th-birthday/)
Nowadays, "basic (http://www.vice.com/read/in-defense-of-the-basic-bitch)" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a Dartmouth College basement (http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/). Devised initially by a group of the school's undergraduates and professors, BASIC's initial academic purpose (http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basicmanual_1964.pdf) was simple: to enable time-sharing on Dartmouth computers with an easy-to-learn, English-based language. Programming itself hasgreatly evolved since, but our early memories of coding in BASIC are no less fond.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/01/basic-programming-language-50th-birthday/
Nowadays, "basic (http://www.vice.com/read/in-defense-of-the-basic-bitch)" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a Dartmouth College basement (http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/). Devised initially by a group of the school's undergraduates and professors, BASIC's initial academic purpose (http://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basicmanual_1964.pdf) was simple: to enable time-sharing on Dartmouth computers with an easy-to-learn, English-based language. Programming itself hasgreatly evolved since, but our early memories of coding in BASIC are no less fond.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/01/basic-programming-language-50th-birthday/