Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

H ere's a secret you might not have known: you don't need advanced programming skills to write basic code, and learning how ...

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

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is remembering the code he wrote a half century ago—code that played a critical role in creating the company.

It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language that had been ... After spending two months working on the program with little sleep, Gates finished the code that ...

Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language ... two months working on the program with little sleep, Gates finished the code that became the basis for ...

and another programmer named Monte Davidoff was responsible for the code for the so-called “math package.” After around two months, they had finished programming and presented the BASIC ...

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