DART(ID:3302/dar006)

Simplified FORTRAN + brackets 

Hargraves 1959 Dartmouth - Language which was essentially FORTRAN with simplified scanning by use of brackets. Written by the an undergraduate, it influenced the decision to use students in language design (Kurz 1978)
Related languages
FORTRAN II => DART   Simplification of
DART => BASIC   Influence
References:
  • Kurz, T.E. "BASIC" view details
          in SIGPLAN Notices 14(04) April 1979 including The first ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages (HOPL) Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978 view details