The 1990s were a boom time for new programming languages. The rise of the internet and the increasing complexity of software ...

Most programmers typically know and use a number of different languages but usually have a bias towards a certain set based on a variety of personal, external, and historical factors.

Fortran is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. VisiCalc ("visible calculator") is the first ...

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

As we celebrate ACM’s first 60 years, it seems appropriate to acknowledge the contributions to the historical record made by the three ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Language (HOPL) conferences.

Apr 19 2013 Software A Brief History of Computer Programming Languages [#Infographic] Who contributed to the code that we use every day?

Do attacks correspond to the popularity of a development language? Our friends over at Veracode posted a great little infograph this week that explains the history of computer programming languages - ...

Explore the fascinating history of the Python programming language, from its inception in the late 1980s to becoming one of the most popular and versatile programming languages today.