Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Bill Findlay
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:51

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On 1 Jun 2018, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote
(in article <perhut$3v0$2...@dont-email.me>):

> On 01/06/2018 14:14, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> > J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:12:57 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
> > > <a...@spamfence.net>  wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:56:45 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On 31/05/2018 17:37, Bob Eager wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I learned BASIC in 1971. Our textbook was the one by Kemeny and Kurtz.
> > > > >
> > > > > I did my 3rd year engineering assignments in 1972 in BASIC on
> > > > > the teletypes of the PDP10 at Essex Uni, when we were all expected
> > > > > to do it in FORTRAN as had been taught :-)
> > > >
> > > > Am probably too young. I first came in contact with BASIC when I had the
> > > > Commodore 64 around 1983.
> > >
> > > It was available on the mainframe at UofF in 1973 when I had my first
> > > exposure to computers, but we also had APL, so BASIC kind of
> > > languished.
> >
> > Basic (not an acronym) was also available in 1974 on the mainframe at UWEC.
> > We also
> > had ALGOL.
>
> BASIC (an acronym) is Beginner's All Purpose Instruction Code

Bodgers' And SImpletons' Incomprehensible Crap

-- 
Bill Findlay

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