The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

High-integrity software tooling experts, AdaCore, are delighted to announce the introduction of the Ada and SPARK programming languages into the automotive market. Together with their partner ...

Ada is a programming language with a long history designed to support high quality software development especially for safety and secure applications such as avionics. SPARK is a version of Ada ...

GitHub introduces Github Spark, enabling developers to create apps using natural language prompts. This experimental feature ...

Scratch conferences are great venues to present innovations in programming. For educators like me, it is exciting to know that the language that we teach is alive, and that new features are developed ...

Learning a new programming language can be fun and interesting. Ada and SPARK, a version of Ada that allows static proof of a program's operation, are very useful for developing high quality software.

Indeed, programming technology powerhouses Microsoft and Sun both cite their own accommodations for these languages: Sun has opened up the Java Virtual Machine to support scripting languages, and ...