Programming languages would step forward once more in the 1990s, with high-level languages like Python, Lua, R, Ruby, and Javascript all coming to the fore. Many of these serve as the backbone of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, to ...

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 ...

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).