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 ...

So that’s how Revolution Analytics was founded,” says Smith. To call Smith an R enthusiast is an understatement. He is a co-author of the programming manual An Introduction to R that comes ...

In today’s interconnected world, the technological revolution has introduced a new form of language: computer programming. Early machine languages, such as binary and assembly code, required ...

Since Smalltalk-80 there hasn't been all that much development in programming languages. Lisp was in 1958, so functional programming dates back to then. Hindley-Milner was complete by 1982 and had ...

The programming languages that developers use to create the applications we now find commonplace evolve faster than ever before.Hardware and infrastr. The Evolution of Programming [Infographic ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

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).

How have programming languages evolved over the past 50 years? How have the early languages influenced later versions, and how are they still used today?