The 1990s were a boom time for new programming languages. The rise of the internet and the increasing complexity of software ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

The evolution of computer languages (infographic) Did you know that the first programming language was created 200 years ago, or that most operating systems are based on a 40-year-old language?

There were *lots* of magazines back in the 80s. As you note, many were specific to one computer or another. A+ for Apple, STart and ST Format for Atari ST, Amiga had a few, Atari 8-bits had Antic ...

The evolution of computer programming has been largely independent of actual computer evolution. ­Languages such as C++ have lived through many generations of computers, and although they’ve ...

Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could ...

Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out what’s going on.