When Ned first opened up the can o’ worms of “which programming language is the best,” it seemed like a fine opportunity for an argument, Monty Python style.

The First Programming Languages: ... she was one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark 1 computer, ... Now, this history didn't end in 1959.

Long before former President Barack Obama declared that computer science education should be available for all, a pair of Dartmouth College mathematicians created a new computer language that would ...

Programming quantum computers is becoming easier: computer scientists at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably ...

She was a mathematician in the Victorian Age, the very first computer programmer. Her father was known as a kind of louche, romantic, you know, a little bit seedy, a little bit crazy, a little bit ...

Features A brief history of computer programming languages. Which do you use? Simon Raik-Allen ABC Technology and Games Updated 17 Jan 2013 (First posted 11 Jan 2013) ...

Here we comb through the annals of history and the lesser known corners of computer programming to find 10 tidbits every computer programmer should know. 1. The first “pre-computers” were ...

In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 computer to Dartmouth and build the first fully functional general-purpose time-sharing system. Despite ...