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RIP Thomas Kurtz

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BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away

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It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receiv…

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My all-time favourite programming language was a dialect of BASIC. HiSoft BASIC on the Atari ST.

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