#basic

Cabel Sasser found a great easter egg in the new Lego Batman game. (Audio on!)

How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.

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Send a tweet with a short program to @AppleIIBot and your program will run on an emulated Apple II computer. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!

New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964.

BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught’ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.”

BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught’ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.”

"This snippet for Piston allows you to offer a choice of authentication methods to clients."

"After Simon's basic I went to university and studied computing and economics. From there I joined SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) and worked on their Unix kernel which was something I always wanted to do. I then joined a startup which unfortunately didn't make it but had a lot of fun (implementing an open source J2EE app server). I've since worked for a number of other companies including Sun and I now work for the leading virtualization company."

"Today, we are releasing Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language - it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Intel and PowerPC), and you even get the source, so you can adapt it to other operating systems and CPUs."

"by Tim Hartnell, published 1983"

"David Ahl's BASIC Computer Adventures is copyright © 1986, and is posted on www.atariarchives.org with the permission of the copyright holder"

Still own, and once cut my teeth on this book. "Edited by David H. Ahl, published 1978 - Also published as 101 BASIC Computer Games"