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-SharingSyStem. Unlike moSt later BASIC dialectS, Dartmouth BASIC waS compiled. (2003-07-02)