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 ...

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.

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 ...

Were there any magazines that focused solely on programming, even if for specific platforms (Amiga, Apple, etc)? I know most computers of the day had their own magazines, but they were general ...

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 ...

The evolution to symbolic thinking ... the technological revolution has introduced a new form of language: computer programming. Looking to the future, natural language programming promises ...

It’s called “Progress: 40 Years of the Personal Computer 1980s-2000s.” Brothers Adam and Brady Zimmel contributed a good portion of the items that are on display. The Sioux Falls brothers ...

More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...