http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040429/D82885100.html
Short article celebrating the 40th anniversary of the BASIC computer language created by Kemeny and Kurtz. In fact an interesting phenomenon is recorded here: the Kemeny/Kurtz creation went hand in hand with the microcomputer -- both were liberating instruments which put power in the hands of nonspecialists in a way which is difficult to imagine nowadays.
And there is just the rub -- in the quest for more power, our systems and their supporting programming languages have become so complex that they are now the domain of technical professionals. The wheel has come full circle in a sense, and there is something sad as well as good about it all.
But BASIC was one of the foundations on which the IT revolution was built, and is worth remembering for this very fact.
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