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

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom (Opens in a new window).

The current issue of Crosstalk came with a poster entitled "The Evolution of Programming Languages" showing a history tree of the derivations of various computer languages.Anyone care to guess the ...

Continuous Evolution of Programming Languages. Programming languages are not static. They evolve, with new features being added or deprecated.

The language design used elements from several other programming languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, and others, to produce a flexible and expressive syntax. Python 2 vs. Python 3 ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom (Opens in a new window).