video on the birth of BASIC

[ijabbott]

(02-26-2019 08:18 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  I started using BASIC in 1965 and made my entire living writing BASIC routines. Now that I'm retired, I still use BASIC for recreational computing. There's very little that can be done in other languages that can't be done in BASIC

The first thing they used to do in university computing courses in the early 80s was to un-teach BASIC!