[ale] Co-founder of BASIC dies, CHips

[Jim Kinney]

LOL!

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 10:00 AM Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 2d arrays in German sounds pretty tricky.
>
> -- CHS
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 3:43 PM 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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