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Gotta check out this post by Billy Hollis

http://dotnetmasters.com/HistoryOfBasic.htm

(mind you my primary development language @ work is VB.NET )

This one had me laughing hard:

"1977 – Hobbyists have figured out how to put slightly more memory on the Altair, so new versions of BASIC are needed to suck up the memory. One of them is the first product from a new company called Microsoft, which begins its tradition of copying ideas from other products and then selling a version that requires more memory. "

"1964 – A pair of instructors at Dartmouth College decide they have a group of students too lazy to learn FORTRAN. They produce a new language with only 26 variable names, so that even a lazy programmer can keep track of them."

Even a lazy programmer can learn BASIC!!