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Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96

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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the rise of personal computing, has died. He was 96.

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