To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

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 ...

Whether you run IT for a massive organization or simply own a smartphone, you're intimately familiar with the unending stream of software updates that constantly need to be installed because of bugs ...

More details have emerged about Google’s forthcoming programming language Dart. Last week we reported that Dart will be officially announced at the GOTO conference in October. A leaked internal Google ...

Best Programming Languages to Learn for In-Demand Jobs in 2025 Your email has been sent Developers who want to push ahead in their profession will want to choose a programming language that appeals to ...

Python remains a firm favourite programming language among developers, but when it comes to the popularity -- or otherwise -- of Java and JavaScript, the answer depends on which coders you ask. French ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group of Portuguese university researchers did and set out to ...

The full picture of the Oprah Winfrey Network is coming into focus now that OWN has unveiled a raft of original programming in the works for its Jan. 1 launch. Thursday’s announcement of five series, ...

Programming is a time-consuming process, and it may take many years to develop even a basic simulator. Researchers want to simplify this process. They have created a language similar to the language ...