Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

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1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

Perl, Python and PHP are the holy trinity of CGI application programming. Stores have shelves full of books about these languages, they're covered well in the computer press and there's plenty on the ...

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Xilinx, one of the world's biggest programmable chipmakers, announced a new deal to acquire C/C++ programming and analysis tool provider Silexica. Xilinx is still in the midst of its own acquisition ...

Facebook's social network got so big, it had to build the thing an entirely new foundation. It's a story that shows just how far the giants of the internet must go to ensure that their services can ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

35-year-old programming language C++ is undergoing a revival, according to Tiobe Software, which says it is the fastest growing language of any right now. C++ is "doing very well", Tiobe CEO Paul ...

Once you get past “10 PRINT ‘HELLO WORLD'”, programs start to get complicated. Modern projects in object oriented languages can span hundreds of files of code, and getting a grip on the entire ...

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities. US President Joe ...