BASIC is 50 years old!

[Don Shepherd]

(04-10-2014 01:33 PM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz are two new heroes of mine! I wish I could go to the events.

Don, I hope you don't mind but I am going to share the link to the web page on my Twitter, Google+, and Facebook page.

Sure, Eddie, that's fine. I got the link from the guy at Dartmouth who organized the 50th anniversary thing.

John Kemeny, who after co-inventing BASIC went on to be president of Dartmouth, died a few years ago. But Tom Kurtz is still among the living and resides near Dartmouth.

I would like to attend also, but I have teaching obligations. The documentary video will probably be available on their website after the event, according to the guy who organized everything.

I have always really appreciated the design principles that went into BASIC. Those principles were meant to keep it simple for the new user and those who could benefit from a knowledge of computer programming but were not geeks or engineers.

I keep looking on Ebay for an old ASR-33 teletype that I could turn into a BASIC timesharing station again. Maybe one day.