Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

Technological innovation begins with the code. The programming languages that developers use to create the applications we now find commonplace evolve faster than ever before. Hardware and ...

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 the ...

For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

The recent statement by Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang shook the general public’s thoughts on an education that was just recently been promoted strongly by governments around the globe for K-12 ...

How have programming languages evolved over the past 50 years? How have the early languages influenced later versions, and how are they still used today? How have programming languages evolved over ...

Jeff Kodosky, co-founder and business and technology fellow at National Instruments, was an architect of the LabView graphical programming language. On visit to the NIDays technology conference in ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Creating synthetic life could be easily within our grasp soon based on a comparison with the evolution of computer chips. Computer programming and gene synthesis appear to share little in common. But ...