His programs were rife with programming techniques deeply tied to the TRS-80’s particular software and hardware, and in a quest for more speed than Microsoft BASIC was theoretically capable of ...

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

More than that, being in BASIC meant that anyone of any age could program it. I kept about 50 chronological folders of papers throughout all my BASIC design work. Each one was labelled GAME BASIC.