Creating a programming language is no longer a big deal, the way it was in the 1970s and earlier. Still, few of these new languages truly succeed. Most remain pet projects or experimental curiosities.

At a high level, they all have the same building blocks: variables, operators, statements, structures, etc. Yes, some programming languages have features that are designed to handle special ...

This is why we want to make the case for moving another discipline to the centre of the curriculum that offers analogous benefits – computer programming. And unlike Latin, it is anything but ...

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

Objective-C, Apple’s programming language, is infamously (even absurdly) verbose, which is part of the reason why Apple got its reputation for being user-friendly. It’s not just the computers ...

Some programming continues to be very textual, but some is becoming more visual, which means the underlying computer language doesn’t matter as much. GUI builders are the easiest places to see this.

The programming language created by Mozilla has hit a sweet spot in the world of systems programming. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Jan. 21, 2020 at 5:26 a.m. PT ...

A study released by CodingDojo in 2018 revealed that almost none of the Fortune 25 companies worked in a single language, many using multiple back-end frameworks.

What this study showed is that the design of this particular tool, Perl, is so ridiculously opaque that, ... So why aren’t all programming languages designed this way?

Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a ...