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 ...

The evolution of language to the rise of technology The next transformative step in language development was the invention of writing. Around 3100 BCE, humans began using written symbols to ...

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 ...

FROM BARE METAL TO HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGES. Before the emergence of high-level programming languages, machines were embedded with hardware-specific enabling languages designed for a specific logic.

Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

Evolution of language is the gradual change in human language over time. It involves the origin and divergence of languages and language families, and can be considered analogous to biological ...

There have been some attempts over the years to put a number on the energy efficiency of specific programming languages, with a paper by Rui Pereira et al. from 2021 (preprint PDF) as published in ...