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 purposes.

The current issue of <I>Crosstalk</I> came with a poster entitled "The Evolution of Programming Languages" showing a history tree of the derivations of various computer languages.<BR><BR>Anyone care ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Programming languages constitute the formal means by which humans communicate instructions to computers. Initially emerging as low‐level machine and assembly languages, these languages have evolved ...