Once again, BASIC fit the bill. In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a modified ... beginner-friendly programming languages like Python and Java.

They worked for two months on it, alongside a third friend, Monte Davidoff. Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview ...

To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product. Reminiscing about Microsoft's ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard ...