BASIC is 50 years old!

[Don Shepherd]

(04-14-2014 09:03 PM)Alvaro Wrote:  Why is BASIC nearly gone.
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With BASIC around, the life of people would be much more easier and , younger people would have a good start up in Computer Programing World.

I wouldn't say BASIC is nearly gone. Far from it, there must be hundreds of versions of BASIC for all kinds of devices today, especially PCs and tablets. I especially like RFO BASIC! that runs on my Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD7. It is much more complex than Dartmouth BASIC, of course, but it is also easy to use and understand.

In 1964, Professors Kemeny and Kurtz were busy introducing BASIC to college and high school students. These days, the folks at MIT are getting younger kids involved in programming with applications like Scratch, which I find very interesting.

Programming can indeed be fun, as most of us found out decades ago.