CUDA Released in Basic(developer.nvidia.com) |
CUDA Released in Basic(developer.nvidia.com) |
BASIC is roughly to Fortran what Rust is to C++: its creators set out to design a "better Fortran", and realized that the limitations and complexities necessitated creating a whole new language.
https://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/739-kemeny-a-ku...
> Kemeny and Kurtz realized that if they wanted to reach everyone on campus with their time-sharing vision, they needed to simplify the user interface. The popular programming languages at the time, FORTRAN and ALGOL, were "just too complicated," Kurtz recalled. "They were full of punctuation rules, the need for which was not completely obvious and therefore people werenʼt going to remember."
https://fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/11/remembering-computing...
When the topic of a simple language began to be considered seriously, Kemeny immediately suggested writing a new one. Kurtz was more interested in a cut-down version of FORTRAN or ALGOL.[14] But these languages had so many idiosyncrasies that Kurtz came to agree with Kemeny:
If we had corrected FORTRAN's ugly features, we would not have FORTRAN anymore. I reluctantly had to agree with John that, yes, a new language was needed.[15]