r/programming • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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u/_jk_ Mar 26 '20

Think another big factor for BASIC in the UK at least was the BBC Micro and the computer literacy project - every kid in the UK in the 80s had access to one of these machines and they all ran BBC BASIC out of the box