So today (30th April, 2014)  marks the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language! Hurrah!

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To help celebrate this, I’ve made a new release of my RTB – Return To BASIC interpreter for the Raspberry Pi. RTB started life about 2.5 years ago – even before the Raspberry Pi hardware was on-sale. I wasn’t initially thinking about the Pi, just Linux in-general, but since the release of the Pi, it has gained a small and growing userbase.

Full article here:
BASIC is 50 (Gordons Projects)
Related:
Celebrating BASIC at 50 (Kresge Physical Sciences Library)