RIP Thomas Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC

From Granite Geek, Thomas Kurtz, Dartmouth co-creator of BASIC and DTSS, has died:

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created BASIC and DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the whole idea of computing and networks, has died. He was 96.

I posted earlier in May about BASIC turning 60. And BASIC was not the only contribution from Thomas Kurtz.

Like a lot of people of my generation, I wrote my first computer programs in BASIC. It was the ubuquitous language, standard in the 70s and 80s micros.