> There were academics who saw the popularity of BASIC as a crisis...
In particular, a pair of academics at the CWI had their own alternative, ABC, and got help in implementing it from a young Guido van Rossum; this experience presumably came in handy when he created his own scripting language...
In particular, a pair of academics at the CWI had their own alternative, ABC, and got help in implementing it from a young Guido van Rossum; this experience presumably came in handy when he created his own scripting language...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)