True BASIC
| True BASIC | |
|---|---|
| Publishing year: | 1983 |
| Designer: | Thomas E. Kurtz , John G. Kemeny |
| Developer: | True BASIC Inc. |
| Current version : | 6.0 () |
| Influenced by: | BASIC |
| www.truebasic.com | |
The first BASIC was developed in 1963 by Professors Thomas E. Kurtz and John G. Kemeny at Dartmouth College (USA). Her goal was to bring her students closer to working on the computer and to develop an alternative to the much more powerful programming languages ALGOL and FORTRAN that was easier to learn . On May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program was started on a General Electric 225 large computer .
The reduced scope of functions and the easy learnability of BASIC made it ideally suited for implementation on home and personal computers. But the economic success also produced numerous variants and dialects that were incompatible with the understanding of a uniform language. This was probably one of the reasons why the two developers, after the language definition, even two decades later (1983) brought the true BASIC called True BASIC onto the market as a development tool.
True BASIC no longer plays a major role for professional developers or hobby programmers, but it is still being developed and offered with extensive program libraries including additional programs. There are also converters for BASIC and FORTRAN source codes to True Basic. True BASIC is being used more and more in universities and schools in the USA.