IBM is working on a project, called QEDwiki, that takes a stab at a long-held industry promise: end-user programming. Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging technology, plans to talk about ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there ...

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Software Tech Culture programming BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding The language that paved the way for ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...