Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Tcl and Tk are scripting languages that have been around for more than a dozen years. This book's primary author, Brent B. Welch, was a student of Tcl's creator, John Ousterhout, and has worked with ...