I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

In the specialized fields of ophthalmologyand optometry, doctors measure sight by having you focus on a central point while keeping your head still. You’ll also be able to see above and below the ...

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Visual Basic 6 is the last version of Visual Basic to be introduced back in early 1998. While Windows 10 supported VB6, Windows 11 users had a doubt if the latest OS would come with VB6 support or not ...

Many people, one way or another, got started programming computers using some kind of Basic. The language was developed at Dartmouth specifically so people could write simple programs without much ...

Abstract: Diagrams are an integral part of our communication and thus automated processing of diagrams becomes increasingly relevant. One way to realise automated processing is by using declarative ...

Cmdlets are the workhorse of PowerShell. They are small, single-purpose commands that perform specific actions. Cmdlets follow a verb-noun naming convention, where the verb describes the action and ...

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...