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basic day
May 1 is BASIC day
May 01, 2008
John Biggs
On this day in 1964 John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz ran the first BASIC program. Designed to be an easy-to-use programming language for students, BASIC has stood the test of time and is probably the firs