If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

Kathryn Cunningham discussed her work applying human-computer interaction methods to support the needs and goals of computing students at the undergraduate level. An emerging trend within computer ...

James Gosling learned a lesson in a recent blog post on the subject of scripting vs. strongly typed general purpose languages, and that is that readers of technology news are evil. Yes, I mean you.

Her community also has a resident-driven newsletter, and they have residents put together presentations about their lives and experiences. As Vickey noted, it’s important to put some conscious effort ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s brief surge.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. There’s diversity in the world of programming languages, and often, the ...

Also called a "domain-specific language," a special-purpose language is a programming language designed to solve a finite class of problems. For example, LISP and Prolog were designed for AI. Tex was ...

Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++. Over the years, Google has created a few programming languages, some of which ...

Open-source programming language Python has become one of the few languages that won't disappear anytime soon. It's the top or one of the top two languages in most notable language popularity indexes, ...