BASIC. Back in the days when 'home computers' became a thing, and RAM memory cost roughly $100 per kilobyte, the race was on to produce a programming language

BASIC. Back in the days when 'home computers' became a thing, and RAM memory cost roughly $100 per kilobyte, the race was on to produce a programming language that was good enough, and small enough to fit in a 4-kilobyte space. Behold! There was plethora of 'Tiny' BASICs. And also the Lawrence Livermore Labs' floating-point BASIC at the end of the 1970s (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/interfaceAge/197612/110-124.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/interfaceAge/197612/110-124.pdf). Today, with GIGABYTES of RAM in even the least expensive computers, we have all sorts of new-fangled languages. But none, in my opinion, as underated as the BASICs of the 1970s.