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BASIC Computer Language Turns 40

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody's-training-wheels dept.

5 REM nam37 codes
10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical"
20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to harness"
30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple enough that even"
40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it."
50 END

5 of 1,042 comments (clear)

  1. First Post by gchan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    10 PRINT "First Post" 20 END

  2. SCO-BASIC by FrankoBoy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    10 PRINT "SUE !"
    20 GOTO 20

    --

    United States of America, good ol' backers of world peace.
  3. Re:Today we use Bash by shawn99452 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    His sig is recursive. It will eventually run out of stack space, because none of the functions returns, and then it will die.

  4. There's no place like 127.0.0.1 by Kosher+Beef+Jerky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    10 PRINT Home 20 PRINT Sweet 30 GOTO 10

  5. Re:BASIC? That's too newfangled for me! by SpinyNorman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Man, that's like some vague bad dream...

    WTF is that.. COBOL, FORTRAN??? Surely not PL/1.

    God help me.