Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Thomas E. Kurtz


John Kemeny had an illustrious career at Prince town University and interestingly, was the assistant of Albert Einstein! He assisted Einstein in his research on the unified field theory.

The co-founders of BASIC, of course, best understood the visible absence of a programming language that could be easily taught by school teachers; so while professionals had many options like using FORTRAN and Algol, students got down to BASIC. Their importance truly can be understood by the fact that in spite of the many programming languages that have been introduced since BASIC's inception, it continues to be a solid foundation to learn programming. A basic instinct, truly!

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