Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

Not since 2001, the year the TIOBE Index started, has a programming language held such a large percentage of community interest as Python does in 2025. Python is not the language with the highest ...

What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a revolution in computer programming. Lisp, a family of programming languages the lab had begun developing in the 1950s, had a ...

Universities and the Future of Programming Languages. Some universities haven’t stopped innovating when it comes to creating the languages themselves. Just over a decade ago, the Massachusetts ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

Today, this standard defines concepts such as data types, and programming styles such as ladder diagram (LD), function block diagram (FBD), structured text (ST) and sequential function chart (SFC).

In the beginning It is not the first time AI has driven a wave of new programming languages. The 1970s and 1980s saw a golden age of AI-focused languages like LISP and Prolog, which introduced ...

The technical analysis from the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director focuses on stopping hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in programming languages that are not memory safe.

State Diagrams A nice aspect of the state machine concept is its compelling graphical representation in the form of state diagrams . In the modern Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.5) notation [3], ...