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Adjacent topic. If you're in the Bay, the co-inventor of BASIC, Thomas E. Kurtz, is being awarded at CHM in November. https://computerhistory.org/events/2023-fe
by kristopolous 3y ago
Adjacent topic. If you're in the Bay, the co-inventor of BASIC, Thomas E. Kurtz, is being awarded at CHM in November. https://computerhistory.org/events/2023-fellow-award-ceremony/ https://computerhistory.org/events/2023-fellow-award-ceremon...
He's 95 so if you wanted to meet him, that event is a great time. The Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov and the founder of iRobot, Rodney Brooks, is also on that schedule.
- password4321 3y agoStill for sale! True BASIC by Kemeny and Kurtz (3 days ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802703 Several cool anecdotes there.
- kristopolous 3y agoI presume basics are still in wide use, just not with people I interact with. VBA for example. PureBasic, FreeBasic, there's still many out there. And of course TI-Basic