Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dead at 96
In his long and illustrious career as a mathematician and computer scientist, Thomas Eugene Kurtz achieved many things. But most important was how he helped generations of other people achieve things: he co-invented BASIC, the programming language most easily-grasped by everyday users. Kurtz is dead at 96.
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