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Dartmouth BASIC Superseded

Dartmouth BASIC
KindProgramming language
Appeared1964
StatusSuperseded
CreatorJohn Kemeny & Thomas Kurtz / Dartmouth
FamilyBASIC
Also known asBASIC
Sourcedtss.dartmouth.edu ↗

Designed so every student could compute — the original Dartmouth compiler and its immediate descendants were absorbed into the thousand-dialect swarm the name now covers.

Created by John G. Kemeny Thomas E. Kurtz
Influenced COMAL

Kemeny and Kurtz designed BASIC (1964) at Dartmouth so every student could program in a hour: line numbers, LET, GOTO, immediate feedback on the time-sharing terminal.\n\nIt became the most-taught language in history and the first language of the microcomputer era — Microsoft's founding product, the language a generation learned on.

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Timeline

1964First BASIC program runs at Dartmouth
1975Altair BASIC — Microsoft is founded to write it

Sources

  1. dtss.dartmouth.edu/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC