It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

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Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50 ...