Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does ...

Computers need programming languages to function ... a bare metal language intended for directly communicating with computer components. Assembly is still in use today, but there was a definite ...

I think it’s interesting that these were two tools you had to pay for. These days, programming languages and most of the basic tools are free. Back in the 1990s, we all had to buy our ...

TIOBE Index for April 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent C++ and C swapped places in the April 2025 TIOBE Programming Community Index top 10, with C++ rising ...

In the 1980s, excitement about object-oriented programming was so high that a new language was coming out every few months, and computer scientists argued that we were on the precipice of a ...

Only Java in 2001 had a higher popularity rating, while Python’s lead over rival languages is the largest in the history of ...

But the choice is not that simple. “For a very long time in computer science, a lot of people who work in programming languages have had the ostensible goal of [creating] the ‘one language to ...