BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding

It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the early 1960s computing landscape. At that time, computers were highly specialized black boxes confined to corporate, government, and university facilities. Programming them required deep mathematical knowledge to translate instructions into pages of numerical code on punched cards.

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