On 04/13/2017 12:30 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > From: allison Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM > >> BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on >> nearly every micro and many other systems. > > Because it was the language offered on the GEIS timesharing system > when a private boys' school in Seattle decided to teach programming > in 1969? And on the systems at HP where a young technician was > working in 1975?
Not forgetting that writing a BASIC interpreter that resides in 4KB is a relatively simple task. There were other interpreted BASIC-like languages before that; e.g. IITRAN. --Chuck