Re:Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One...
by halostatue on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:10AM
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A small correction on Gates: he did not create BASIC. βThe language BASIC was an acronym for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by Dartmouth mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates.β[1]
The rest generally applies.
[1] http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-Histor...