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Yes, I read that there were some more structured-programming-oriented BASICs that came out some time after the structured programming movement started [1]. IIRC
by vram22 8y ago
Yes, I read that there were some more structured-programming-oriented BASICs that came out some time after the structured programming movement started [1]. IIRC, one such BASIC was by a company founded by John Kemeny [2], one of creators of the first BASIC. It might have been called TrueBASIC or PureBASIC or some such name. Think I read about it in some computer magazine.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming
Aside: Just looked up Kemeny in Google.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny
Interesting snippet from his Wikipedia page:
[ Kemeny's family settled in New York City where he attended George Washington High School. He graduated with the best results in his class three years later.[2] In 1943[1] Kemeny entered Princeton University where he studied mathematics and philosophy, but he took a year off during his studies to work on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos National Laboratory. His boss there was Richard Feynman. He also worked there with John von Neumann. Returning to Princeton, Kemeny graduated with his BA in 1947, then worked for his Doctorate under Alonzo Church, also at Princeton. He worked as Albert Einstein's mathematical assistant during graduate school.[1] ]
And the company and BASIC dialect he created later were both called True BASIC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_BASIC
That was a lot of other eminent people he was associated with :)
- EvanAnderson 8y agoKemeny was a really interesting guy. His obituary[1] gives some good background on him. I read his 1972 book, "Man and the Computer"[2], in the early 90s. Some of his predictions about how computers would be used in the future (ubiquitous networking, online shopping, etc) were spot-on. His idea of "mainframes" providing centralized services seemed backwards to me in the early 90s, when I was just getting my PC onto the Internet for the first time, but it appears that he got that one right too. [1] http://www.columbia.edu/~jrh29/kemeny.html http://www.columbia.edu/~jrh29/kemeny.html [2] https://archive.org/details/mancomputer00keme https://archive.org/details/mancomputer00keme
- vram22 8y agoThanks for the info. I read his obituary that you linked to. It really is interesting, as you said. He had great vision. And did a lot practically too, of course.