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Hard to imagine what programming would be like without his contribution to programming languages!
"Kurtz began teaching at Dartmouth upon receiving his PhD. After a few years, he and fellow professor John Kemeny developed the original version of the Dartmouth Timesharing System (DTSS), a method of sharing computer access across a network and a requirement for allowing multiple students access to BASIC."
At the time, there were only professional programming languages, such as assembler, possibly Fortran and RPG, available. They wanted to open the world of computers to students who weren't mathematicians or computer scientists to see what they could learn.
And boy, did they ever!
https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/0528224/thomas-e-kurtz-co-inventor-of-basic-dies-at-96
"Kurtz began teaching at Dartmouth upon receiving his PhD. After a few years, he and fellow professor John Kemeny developed the original version of the Dartmouth Timesharing System (DTSS), a method of sharing computer access across a network and a requirement for allowing multiple students access to BASIC."
At the time, there were only professional programming languages, such as assembler, possibly Fortran and RPG, available. They wanted to open the world of computers to students who weren't mathematicians or computer scientists to see what they could learn.
And boy, did they ever!
https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/0528224/thomas-e-kurtz-co-inventor-of-basic-dies-at-96
