IconoclasT wrote:
] BASIC Computer Language Turns 40
]
] 10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a
] radical"
]
] 20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to
] harness"
]
] 30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple
] enough that even"
]
] 40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it."
]
] 50 END

"The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."
-- Edsger Dijkstra

RE: Happy Birthday to BASIC