There are many types of 'programming languages', each of which has unique characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses. Bjorn Tipling, a software engineer at Floobits, likens 16 languages to different ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

The ever-quotable Sean McGrath penned another of his trademark aphorisms this week: “The library IS the language.” By “library” he means the great edifices of reusable code that are, in their modern ...

White House Recommends Memory-Safe Programming Languages and Security-by-Design Your email has been sent Memory safety vulnerabilities a concern in programming languages New metrics for measuring ...