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| | BASIC programming language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | SIC's name, coined in classic, computer science tradition to produce a nice acronym, stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, tied to the name of an unpublished paper by the language's co-inventor, Thomas Kurtz (the name thus having no relation to C.K. Ogden's series "Basic English"). |
 | | The prototypical Hello world program: 10 PRINT "Hello, world!" 20 END |
 | | A Manual for BASIC, the elementary algebraic language designed for use with the Darthmouth Time Sharing System (PDF) – Darthmouth College Computation Center, 1 October 1964 (the original Dartmouth BASIC manual) |
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