Alexandrescu didn't much like D, but he agreed. "I think it was the beer," he now says. The result is a programming language that just might defy the odds. Nine years after that night in Seattle ...

(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...

We’d heard about computer programming, of course ... This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs ...

Every software program is written in a programming language, and there are several languages for every major CPU series; typically an assembly language and a number of high-level languages.

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 ...