For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

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 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 ... became a more recent priority in the GPU programming evolution. The resulting work in OpenACC, which was done in ...