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 ...

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 ...

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).