Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

The team at ServicesANGLE would like to take you back through some of the key launch dates for programming languages that have built the information technology infrastructure we have today.

Programming is basically instructions from a human to ask a computer how to process data or information. Programming has been democratised, in that anyone with some form of coherent thinking can learn ...

Java is transitioning into a functional programming language, introducing direct support for cloud computing and returning to its embedded-device roots, all at the same time. Already the world's most ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom.

How have programming languages evolved over the past 50 years? How have the early languages influenced later versions, and how are they still used today?

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

Jeff Kodosky, co-founder and business and technology fellow at National Instruments, was an architect of the LabView graphical programming language.