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A version of BASIC shipped with practically every home computer of the era, but the language actually dates back to 1964, when computer boffins John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first successful BASIC program on May 1 at 4am. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/01/basic_50th_anniversary/ ...]
 
A version of BASIC shipped with practically every home computer of the era, but the language actually dates back to 1964, when computer boffins John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first successful BASIC program on May 1 at 4am. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/01/basic_50th_anniversary/ ...]
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10 PRINT "Happy 50th Birthday, BASIC" : GOTO 10

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Language that defined the 8-bit era celebrates half a century

Wanna feel old? Thursday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of BASIC, the programming language that took the computing world by storm during the PC revolution of the mid-1970s and 1980s.

A version of BASIC shipped with practically every home computer of the era, but the language actually dates back to 1964, when computer boffins John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first successful BASIC program on May 1 at 4am. ...