There probably has never been such a controversial programming language as Algol. In the early 1960s the disciplinary success of the so-called Algol project in helping to forge the discipline of ...

The language design used elements from several other programming languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, and others, to produce a flexible and expressive syntax. Python 2 vs. Python 3 ...

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

A further boost to the success of C came with the publication, in 1978, of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. The book, a slim 228 page volume, was, even for the ...

He applied the language to early Microsoft products. Last year, when Dr. Kurtz was honored as a fellow of the Computer History Museum, Gates, in a video for the museum, congratulated him on the award.