BASIC programming language
BASIC, lenguaje para principiantes
- Date
- 1964 · confidence high
- Place
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
- Credited to
- John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
- People
- 👤 John George Kemeny1926–1992👤 Thomas Eugene Kurtz1928–2024
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Simple language intended for non-technical students to program on time-sharing terminals. It reached every home computer of the 1980s and was Microsoft's first product.
What it led to
- The computer literacy of a generation of hobbyists
- The founding of Microsoft (Altair BASIC, 1975)
- The home computing of the 1980s (Commodore, Sinclair, MSX)
Built on
Made possible
- Electronic spreadsheet (VisiCalc)1979
- Altair BASIC
- 8-bit home computers
- Visual Basic