A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Clearly, AI-assisted coding products are experiencing incredible adoption rates, and vibe coding is capturing the imagination ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world.

This article will take you through a history of computer programming languages, showing how they grew and shaped the digital world we live in. Key Takeaways Early programming was very close to how ...

What if computer history were a romantic comedy? In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs.

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...

Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level since 1980, according to data from the Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The fall correlates ...

Valentine’s Day 1946: The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms The ENIAC was a 30-ton 'numerical monster'—and pivotal in the history of consumer technology.

The history of a programming language is actually very important now that we already know what a programming language is. Computer programming languages are said to have been developed in the mid of ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually propelled generations ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...