Programming languages would step forward once more in the 1990s, with high-level languages like Python, Lua, R, Ruby, and Javascript all coming to the fore. Many of these serve as the backbone of ...

In the past 10 years, there have been very few changes in the top 5 programming languages. Chart courtesy of RedMonk ...

The programming language Java's popularity has been slowly declining in some programming language index rankings, but it's popped back into the second spot in RedMonk's latest chart. Javascript ...

In this video - which is part of Computing 's 40th anniversary celebrations - we look back at 10 of the most important programming languages created, including Fortran, Cobol, C++ and JavaScript.