The History of the BASIC programming language
Discovered this book by accident, one of those random searches on Amazon results in often finding little gems. The History of the BASIC programming language is one of those gems.
With just a handful of commands, this language which started life designed to go hand in hand with large computers and timesharing of the 1960’s turned out to be the ultimate accessory for the soon to become booming home computer industry of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.
If you have ever used BASIC, wondered how Microsoft built a multi-billion dollar empire off the back of this language and where it all started then this is a great little book which will shine a new light of the history and influence Kemeny and Kurtz had on the industry of computers and programming.
