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10 PRINT: a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program

BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough could run, and some were very ...
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Thomas E. Kurtz, a creator of BASIC computer language, dies at 96

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...