The 1980s saw two notable programming languages, C++ and Objective-C, among others like Lisp, Ada, and MATLAB. If you recognize these, it’s for good reason. Both are based upon C but with ...

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 Fortran branch, for example, seems to be merging with ... for language designers to think about where the evolution of programming languages is likely to lead, because they can steer accordingly.

The Java language ... evolution of Java. The first pressure is created by the increased demand for programmers and the pressure to create programs faster and with fewer errors. This pressure was the ...

I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the ... on JUST certain platforms. So for example there's a guy who only talks ...

Because C is a lower-level language ... programming problems. Case in point (see sidebar) is how a simple Java function to sum an array of integers has evolved over the last 20 years, through ...