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 ...

When it comes to technology conferences, Heather White and Eli White see power in bringing many languages and platforms together. With the first Mid-Atlantic Developer Conference, the Mt. Airy–based ...

I’m a big fan of Python — the open source programming language. In case you’re wondering, Python is indeed named after the BBC comedy group Monty Python. The language was created around 1990 by Guido ...

B y any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...

Learning a new programming language isn't easy. Even those who already know the basic elements common to all programming languages will likely to stumble through the awkward phase of trying to ...

Let’s start right off with a controversial claim: Forth is the hacker’s programming language. Coding in Forth is a little bit like writing assembly language, interactively, for a strange CPU ...

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 ...

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...