On 5/1/08 3:13 PM, in article fvd4od$6sf$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Auric__" <not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:35:03 GMT, R.Nicholson wrote:
>
>> The article says that at 4 a.m. on May 1st, 1964, Kemeny and Kurtz ran
>> their first BASIC program on Dartmouth college's General Electric
>> GE-225
>> mainframe.
>>
>> (Thankfully, they continued program language development beyond
>> their Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment , or this
>> group might have had the much less desirable name: comp.lang.DOPE :)
>
> W00t! All hail the almighty DOPE... er... BASIC language!
Dude, this was the sixties, man! Dope was cool, man! Weed was where it was
at, man!


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