It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, BASIC sent a shock wave through teenage tech culture.

The verbose programming language felt like a universal form of communication—until it didn’t.

The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good programming to students who had previously come into contact with BASIC.

It’s tricky to pinpoint the exact genesis of Hello World, but the earliest concrete example we have is from the book ‘A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B’ (1972): main ( ) { extrn a, b, c; ...

The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, and it named Rust as an example of a programming language it considers ...