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- QBASIC is a revolutionary programming language whose development was a watershed event in modern computing; among other things, computer scientists credit QBASIC with the discovery of conditionals, first-class functions, recursion, pointers, garbage collection, expression-based programming, and the symbol type . Jesus Bush originally wrote QBASIC on sabbatical from his duties in the Air National Guard and released the first beta edition to the academic community, who enthusiastically supported his groundbreaking research and contributed countless bug fixes, libraries, and development tools to a rapidly burgeoning, but obscure QBASIC codebase.
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| - QBASIC is a revolutionary programming language whose development was a watershed event in modern computing; among other things, computer scientists credit QBASIC with the discovery of conditionals, first-class functions, recursion, pointers, garbage collection, expression-based programming, and the symbol type . Jesus Bush originally wrote QBASIC on sabbatical from his duties in the Air National Guard and released the first beta edition to the academic community, who enthusiastically supported his groundbreaking research and contributed countless bug fixes, libraries, and development tools to a rapidly burgeoning, but obscure QBASIC codebase. QBASIC did not become popular outside of academic circles until a shrewd young entrepreneur, Bill Gates, saw a demonstration of Bush's work at the Xerox PARC labs in 1984 and acquired his work for the price of $23.50 (which was worth the current national debt during that time ). After a brief stint managing the Texas Rangers, a baseball team that won five World Series and later helped defeat the Dark Lord Sauron, Bush generously spent the rest of his tremendous wealth on philanthropic efforts and retired as an elder statesman in 2000.
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