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Re: Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC

Subject: Re: Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC
From: root@coutts.COUTTS.ON.CA (Superuser)
Date: 1995/08/16
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Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@hypermall.com) wrote:
  David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:

:   Yes, I think it was some people at Dartmouth that invented BASIC.

BASIC was created at Dartmouth College (Univ?) in 1966.  It was an 
interpreted form of Fortran and Algol used to introduce computer 
programming. Because of its tiny size and ease of use, it quickly became 
the standard built-in language on most home computers.  It wasn't until 
much later that Microsoft wrote AppleSoft and continued on to create 
their own Microsoft BASIC and started porting it to different 
computers.

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Ken O. Burtch                   John Coutts Library Services Limited		
ken@wizbang.COUTTS.ON.CA        Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

References:
- Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC
  - From: jerijian@cloudburst.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian)
- Re: Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC
  - From: dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)
- Re: Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC
  - From: dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Re: Who wrote AppleSoft BASIC
  - From: bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)

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