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> Along with the time sharing system came the new language which they decided to call BASIC. At first it was going to be a subset of Fortran but they decided that no subset of any existing language would be complete enough.

https://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/739-kemeny-a-ku...

> Kemeny and Kurtz realized that if they wanted to reach everyone on campus with their time-sharing vision, they needed to simplify the user interface. The popular programming languages at the time, FORTRAN and ALGOL, were "just too complicated," Kurtz recalled. "They were full of punctuation rules, the need for which was not completely obvious and therefore people werenʼt going to remember."

https://fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/11/remembering-computing...