That makes Scheme an excellent language for teaching programming, but a lousy one for a 15-year-old trying to figure out how to make a computer do stuff on his own.

Fortran, conceived at IBM in the late 1950s as a more practical alternative to the assembly language, has re-entered the list of top 20 programming languages, over a half a century after it was ...

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Ada, a programming language born in the late 70s, has managed to break into the top 10 of the TIOBE Index for July 2025.

Latest article about C: One of the oldest programming languages still in common use, C was created in the early 1970s. In 1978, the language's legendary and still widely read manual, the 800-page ...

Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost.

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Regardless, this raises fascinating questions about the future of one of the oldest programming languages that's still widely used.

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C is one of the oldest programming languages still in popular use today, developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. It was designed to be a general-purpose language, for programming a wide array of ...