Some will split code up into many lines; others will compress it into a handful of lines. I’ve seen nearly identical segments of code written in 10 lines or in 50. Here’s another line of C++ code.

I want to make a password cracking program using brute force against RAR files. I need help getting a library to extract (or at least test passwords) on RAR files. I also need help using the ...

It's been 20 years or more since I wrote my first few hundred lines of code in C, so it's about time I learned a more modern language, maybe something object oriented. ... in the good new days, I have ...

Meanwhile, Perl is the fastest SUV, coming up in front of all the other SUVs. It’s the best in its class. Of course, we all know Perl is in a class of its own.” ...

In a post on the Dlang.org website, Alexandrescu elaborates a little more: The code project he’s working on is in “heavy daily use at Facebook” and originally it was written in C++. Now that ...

Python is really simple, it's designed expressly to promote readability of code, and allow simple expression of concepts in very few lines. With automatic memory management and the ability to ...

Wow, my first post in the Programmer's Symposium. Be gentle.I'm working on a program that does a bit (and by a bit I mean an absurd amount) of image ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Runners-up this year were C, the second most popular language, which grew in popularity by 3.82%, and Python, the top language, which grew by 2.78%. Having fallen from third, Java is now in fourth ...

Burt explained that you can write a program in Python with one line of code that might take you ten lines in a language like C++. He also pointed to the growing popularity of Python in schools and ...