These new languages utilized new abstractions to make programming easier.

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With AI's rise, effective communication in English is now vital for programming, shifting focus from coding syntax to clarity and context.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.