Since no one mentioned it yet, an oft suggested alternative to the dragon book is "Programming Language Pragmatics" by Michael Scott. It covers the basics of scanning and parsing in the first 100 ...

Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages, toolkits, and even help from ...

Benefits of the Zig programming language include simplified testing, compiled code optimization and integrated debugging.

On Monday, Apple released Swift, a new programming language for iOS and OS X. Today, still in the same workweek, Facebook’s Parse has added Swift support. This means developers building with ...