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…
  • MajorHavoc
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    1 hour ago

    RIP legend. O7

    May his prompt always read “READY” wherever his legacy may GOTO or RETSUB.

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 hours 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 It was extremely outdated back then but BASIC (in it’s various forms) is hard to beat when it comes to learning the fundamentals.