techElder
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So, I missed it again this year, but February 22 is called the beginning of the BASIC language.
... Is there another language that can claim to have done more to change the way we use computers? You may not like it, but it was the language that brought computing to the masses....
The "rest of the story" is at this link: http://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/739-kemeny-a-kurtz.html... But to understand this argument you need to know about Kemeny and Kurtz the true inventors of Basic and, eventually, the inventors of True Basic....