Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment

DOPE (Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment)
Paradigmsprocedural
Designed byJohn G. Kemeny
DeveloperSidney Marshall
First appeared1962 (1962)
Implementation languageAssembly
PlatformLGP-30
Influenced by
DARSIMCO, DART, Dartmouth ALGOL 30, Fortran
Influenced
Dartmouth BASIC

DOPE, short for Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment, was a simple programming language designed by John Kemény in 1962 to offer students a transition from flow-charting to programming the LGP-30. Lessons learned from implementing DOPE were subsequently applied to the invention and development of BASIC.