John George Kemeny, the inventor of BASIC

A programming language for everyone: BASIC Being able to develop a programming language that could use everyone. This must have been thought by John George Kemeny when, in 1964 together with Thomas Eugene Kurtz, he created BASIC. The “Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” was developed at Dartmouth University and was launched on May 1, 1964 at […]