It's been 60 years since the first BASIC programme ran at Dartmouth College. János Kemény developed the language with a ...

Despite its decline in the 1990s, BASIC's legacy lives on in modern languages like Python and Java. There are many programming languages in use today, but only a few can claim to have ...

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

We also need to put Microsoft's BASIC language into perspective. Programming languages are often described as "higher-level languages." That's because the native language of the machine ...

TIOBE Index for April 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent C++ and C swapped places in the April 2025 TIOBE Programming Community Index top 10, with C++ rising ...

WebAssembly gives you a way to run code across platforms, including in a web browser, at near-native speeds, and by way of a broad range of languages. Google’s Go language compiles directly to ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE ...

WebAssembly, or Wasm, gives developers a way to create programs that run at near-native speed in the browser or anywhere else ...

In the early 1970s, he and Allen reached out to the creators of the Altair 8800, claiming they had already developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the computer's processor.

It started with a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 computer, and the rest is history. Bill and Paul, might not have realized at that time, that they just did not ...

The plan was to create software that would allow Altair 8800 owners to develop their own programs using the easy-to-learn BASIC programming language. As such, Gates and Allen decided to develop a ...