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I just learned via @Sempf that Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny (1926–1992), has died:

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

BASIC isn’t just of historical interest to me. It’s an part of everyday artistic practice: I write programs in Commodore 64 BASIC v2, Applesoft BASIC, and yabasic as often as I can. The language (which became a family of languages for microcomputers) was the lingua franca of popular computing and is still the standard for such.