BASIC

The BASIC programming language runs for the first time on a General Electric 225 mainframe computer at Dartmouth College in spring of 1964. BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the language. It is intended to be a stepping-stone for students to learn one of the more powerful languages such as FORTRAN and ALGOL.
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