language The original BASIC language, designed by John

G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963.

Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy

programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's

experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC

dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.