It wasn't the first popular language ... It was featured prominently in early computer magazines, where readers could find ...

“We looked at languages and we both decided that ... a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the ...

This vexed [Alan Pope], who yearned for his early days of ROM BASIC ... to-code language. Almost every major flavour you could imagine has an interpreter, but as is a appropriate for a computer ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games.