I'm excited to be attending the Computer History Museum's fellow awards celebration tonight, especially since one of the honorees is Tom Kurtz, the co-inventor of BASIC! https://computerhistory.org/2023-fellow-awards/
In 2014, I marked BASIC's 50th birthday by exploring its history and surprisingly controversial reputation. (Lots of Serious Computer People didn't like it, which seems ridiculous to me.) https://time.com/69316/basic/
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