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 ...

These languages are much simpler than English but are still vastly more complex than the computer can understand. Whether code is written in C++ or Chicken, once the coder runs the program ...

Some have even called English the hot new programming language. Being able to code has ... "Literally everyone can program a computer," he said at Berkeley Haas University's Dean's Speaker Series ...

A regular column about programming ... computer scientist Grace Hopper designed a language called FLOW-MATIC (a name whose badassery has yet to be outdone) that used plain-English-like commands ...

Every month or so, computer scientist ... where he first studied computers and programming. Computers were, at their earliest, an innovation in the English-language world, so in a subtly ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking ...