A small correction on Gates: he did not create BASIC. “The language BASIC was an acronym for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed

A small correction on Gates: he did not create BASIC. “The language BASIC was an acronym for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by Dartmouth mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates.”[1] The rest generally applies. [1] http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-History-of-the-BASIC-Programming-Language.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-Histor...