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 | | BASIC'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to produce a nice acronym, stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, tied to the name of an unpublished paper by the language's co-inventor, Thomas Kurtz (the name thus having no relation to C.K. Ogden's series "Basic English"). |
 | | Programming languages of the era tended to be designed, like the machines on which they ran, for specific purposes such as scientific formula processing. |
 | | The original BASIC language was invented in 1963 by John Kemeny (1926–93) and Thomas Kurtz (1928–) at Dartmouth College and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction. |
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