BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough could run, and some were very ...

Famed programmer Poul-Henning Kamp argues that programming languages are limited by their reliance on ASCII Programming languages are unnecessarily difficult to work with because they rely on the ...

Programming languages are unnecessarily difficult to work with because they rely on the artificial constraint of using only ASCII characters, a noted programmer argues in the November issue of the ...