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Thomas Kurtz, mathematician, 1928-2024
托馬斯•庫爾茨,數學家,1928-2024

His invention of the Basic programming language paved the way for the personal computer revolution
他發明的Basic編程語言爲個人電腦革命鋪平了道路。
Thomas Kurtz’s insight to tap time-sharing systems for educational purposes was, he said, a ‘completely nutty idea’ at the time

At the start of the 1960s, when most computers occupied an entire room, the world’s programmers could barely fill a baseball stadium. Only a few thousand specialists could wrangle arcane coding languages such as Fortran and Cobol, and the unwieldy mainframes they ran on.

20世紀60年代初,當大多數電腦佔據整個房間時,全球的程式員幾乎無法填滿一個棒球場。只有幾千名專家能夠駕馭像Fortran和Cobol這樣晦澀的編碼語言,以及它們運行的笨重大型機。

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