What had been Dartmouth BASIC 7 became the first version of True BASIC. The company, True BASIC Inc., was formed and versions of the language were created for both the DOS and Mac operating systems. In 1983 a group of graduating Dartmouth students persuaded Kemeny and Kurtz to offer their programming language as a commercial product. True BASIC is still unequaled for raw power, logical approach, and easy-to-comprehend usability.įrom Academic Use to a Commercial Company They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers. English-like functions and statements helped ordinary folks perform extraordinary feats with their computer programs. Kurtz invented BASIC ( Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for use at Dartmouth College so that their students could quickly write useful computer programs and at the same time, understand what they were doing.
Over 50 years later, it still enables anyone to write their own programs.
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