As ZDNet noted when Ritchie died in in 2011, C is the "heart of programming … as the quintessential expression of coding elegance, power, simplicity and portability." It's also a language that ...

Gewirtz chart shows Python ... The best advice for picking a programming language is first to figure out what you want to do and then choose the language best suited for that occupation.

Hailed for its versatility and dev velocity, Python has steadily climbed the programming language charts over the past few years. It’s considered a useful language for working with AI ...

Last year, programming language Scala and Java-based Clojure topped the list of highest paying languages. This year, Scala and Clojure still top the charts, earning developers $182,000 and $ ...

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A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. Because HTML looks easy and lacks features like formal conditional logic and ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning ...