The consistent performers If there are any languages that embody classic programming, they're the C-based languages: Java, C++, C#, and C itself.

We’ll cheat a little at the start since SQL (Structured Query Language) is not universally considered a programming language. SQL is a language that facilitates working with databases, often ...

C (, as in the letter c) is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language. It supports structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system ...

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, one of the creators of the art and science of computer programming, has died. He was 72. Born in Rotterdam in 1930, Dijkstra's career in Europe and the United States included ...

The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good programming to students who had previously come into contact with BASIC.