[ale] Co-founder of BASIC dies, CHips

[Jim Kinney]

I did my masters language test in basic - my options were German, Russian, Fortran, or Basic.

Simple 2D arrays in basic were easier than in Fortran.

On November 18, 2024 12:51:39 PM EST, Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Hell, my first paid programming was in BASIC
>
>On Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 12:33 Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Now this guy will be missed.   You can debate about BASIC ( Dijkstra was
>> Not a Fan ( https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf
>> )), but
>> no question that it was pretty ok good for the time.
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 12:05 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This is From:
>>>   ACM TechNews; Monday, November 18, 2024
>>>   (c) 2024 Smithbucklin
>>>   This service may be reproduced for internal distribution.
>>>
>>> Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of BASIC, Dies at 96
>>> Bloomberg (11/14/24) Laurence Arnold
>>>
>>> ACM Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who
>>> co-created the BASIC programming code, has died at 96. BASIC (Beginner's
>>> All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was invented by John Kemeny,
>>> chair of Dartmouth's math department, and Kurtz, one of his faculty
>>> members, as part of their push to open up the world of computing to
>>> a wide community.
>>>
>>> "We looked at languages and we both decided that the languages Fortran,
>>> Algol, that type of language, were just too complicated," Kurtz said in
>>> an oral-history interview with Dartmouth.
>>>
>>> https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-317b3_0x2431c5x020394
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> U.S. Finalizes $6.6-Billion CHIPS Act Grant to TSMC
>>> Nikkei Asia (11/15/24) Yifan Yu
>>>
>>> The U.S. finalized a CHIPS Act grant of $6.6 billion to Taiwan
>>> Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), with at least $1 billion to
>>> be disbursed by the end of the year. The funds will be distributed in
>>> phases as the company hits certain project milestones. TSCMC will produce
>>> 3 nanometer (nm), 2 nm, and A16 chips at three Arizona fabs.
>>>
>>> https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-317b3_0x2431c6x020394
>>>
>>> I (Bob) am disappointed that these grants don't seem to be going to
>>> U.S. companies.  On the other hand four (or so) Japanese and German
>>> car makers have built plants around the Southeast U.S. over the past
>>> 20-30 years.  A friend of mine who worked at one spoke highly of it.
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