Coders choose programming languages for any number of technical reasons, but they also choose them for very personal reasons—and these personal reasons inevitably intertwine with the technical.

The evolution of computer programming has been largely independent of actual computer evolution. ­Languages such as C++ have lived through many generations of computers, and although they’ve ...

Programming languages have come a long way since the inception of computer programming. From early machine code to high-level languages, each step in their evolution has significantly impacted how ...