I forgot to celebrate the 60th anniversary of BASIC yesterday. But in 2014, I tried to pull out all the stops in my 50th anniversary story. https://time.com/69316/basic/
@harrymccracken BASIC was my first programming language. We wrote programs on paper in maths lessons at school, our teacher typed them into a computer at the local university (correcting any obvious syntax errors), ran them, printed the output, and brought the results back to the next lesson.
I became a competent programmer in due course, contrary to Dijkstra's critique of the language.
I'm sorry that three of the people who told me BASIC stories for this article have since died: Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, PC Mag/PC World cofounder David Bunnell, and TRS-80 graphics genius Leo Christopherson.
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