{"id":14192,"date":"2004-04-30T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/basic-turns-40\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T11:14:00","slug":"basic-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/basic-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"BASIC Turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/article\/20040429\/D82885100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>APNews<\/i> reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>10 PRINT \"In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical\"\r<br \/>20 PRINT \"idea - create a computer language muscular enough to harness\"\r<br \/>30 PRINT \"the power of the period's computers, yet simple enough that even\"\r<br \/>40 PRINT \"the school's janitors could use it.\"\r<br \/>50 END<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember learning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BASIC_programming_language\" target=\"_blank\">BASIC<\/a> back in elementary school; I had no idea the language was that old, though&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/04\/29\/1932227&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=126&amp;tid=156\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108332366507977645?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APNews reports: 10 PRINT &#8220;In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical&#8221; 20 PRINT &#8220;idea &#8211; create a computer language muscular enough to harness&#8221; 30 PRINT &#8220;the power of the period&#8217;s computers, yet simple enough that even&#8221; 40 PRINT &#8220;the school&#8217;s janitors could use it.&#8221; 50 END I remember learning BASIC back in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/basic-turns-40\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BASIC Turns 40&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}