BASIC
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BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. Th
The HP 2000 system was designed to run time-shared BASIC as its primary task.
"Train Basic every day!"—reads a poster (bottom center) in a Russian school (c. 1985–86)
BASIC came to some video game systems, such as the Famicom.
Fortran
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Fortran is a third-generation, compiled, imperative programming language designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.
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…Simplified Code) and DOPE (Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment). These did not progress past a single freshman class. New experiments using Fortran and ALGOL followed, but Kurtz concluded these languages were too tricky for what they desired. As Kurtz noted, Fortran had numerous oddly formed commands…
John Backus proposed the FORTRAN project in December 1953 and received the A.M. Turing Award in 1977.
The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 (October 15, 1956), the first programmer's reference manual for Fortran
FORTRAN code on a punched card, showing the specialized uses of columns 1–5, 6 and 73–80
A pad of FORTRAN coding forms, used by programmers to prepare programs for punching onto cards by keypunch operators