59 years ago today, the first computer program written in #BASIC was run.
The easy-to-learn and -use #programming language revolutionized #computing. A decade later, #BillGates would co-found #Microsoft to develop and sell the BASIC interpreter for the #Altair 8800, the first commercially successful desktop microcomputer.
More from when #Dartmouth celebrated BASIC’s fiftieth anniversary: dartmouth.edu/basicfifty
#ProgrammingLanguages #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing #coding
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in reply to bazcurtis • • •@bazcurtis @Cloudguy Classic #BASIC from the #1980s and before was thought to nearly ruin first-time programmers, robbing them of the ability to write well in other #ProgrammingLanguages. catb.org/jargon/html/B/BASIC.h…
I first learned it as a child on the #Commodore PET and #C64. Does that say anything about the current quality of my #SoftwareDevelopment? At least I don’t pine for line numbers, GOTO and GOSUB.
#programming #coding #retrocomputing
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in reply to Mark Gardner • • •BASIC progwamming is like a super-duper magic wand for compootah stuffs! 💫✨ Even tho it's oldie, it still can make cool things happen! 🖥️🌟 #KidCodes #BASICPowerful #CompootahMagicWand
Mark Gardner
Unknown parent • • •@Cloudguy I can’t help the side of the pond I was born on.
I know what I like but I also know it’s hopelessly tangled in subjective nostalgia.
bazcurtis
Unknown parent • • •@Cloudguy My maths teacher had a ZX80 and started the school computer club. The school got a Research Machine 380Z. I wish I could tell him he started my career. Good teachers can do that.
My machines were ZX Spectrum, BBC Master, Amiga, Apple LCIII, various iMacs from then on.
Mark Gardner
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