The Java programming language succeeded, he says, because Sun Microsystems put so much money behind it back in the '90s. Certainly, D still faces a long road to success.

During the past few decades, programming languages have come a long way. In comparison to the dawn of UNIX and C, when compiled languages were just getting their start, today's world is full of ...

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

News. New Microsoft Programming Language: 'D'? By Becky Nagel; February 6, 2008; All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, ...

Objective-C, used for developing Apple iOS applications, climbs to No. 6 in the monthly Tiobe Programming Community index for most popular programming languages, after being ranked at number 8 a ...

What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

News. New Microsoft Programming Language: 'D'? By Becky Nagel; February 5, 2008; All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, ...