The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC fIRst ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an {IBM 704} on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth' s experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled. (2003-07-02)