Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

Pointing to GitHub's AI-assisted software development tool, Copilot, Hanley said the technology aims to not only help developers write code, but also to review and fix it.

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing. T… ...