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Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...
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'Queen of Code' Grace Hopper and the moth that gave us the word 'computer bug'

Mathematician Grace Hopper, who earned a PhD at Yale and later became a US Navy rear admiral, pioneered compilers and helped ...
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Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC computer language, dies at 96

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...