[ale] Co-founder of BASIC dies, CHips

[Boris Borisov]

On hackaday post almost all posts were stating that Basic is that shaped
their careers as programmers. I didn't become one but started my love for
computers.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 15:43 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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