| Paradigms | procedural |
|---|---|
| Designed by | John G. Kemeny |
| Developer | Sidney Marshall |
| First appeared | 1962 |
| Implementation language | Assembly |
| Platform | LGP-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.[1]