When Ned first opened up the can o’ worms of “which programming language is the best,” it seemed like a fine opportunity for an argument, Monty Python style.

Programmers that I’ve spoken to about ChatGPT – and potential future evolutions of the technology – tell me that rather than a threat, at the moment, it's a very valuable tool.

Programming quantum computers is becoming easier: computer scientists at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably ...

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 ...

I soon found my way to the doomsday writings of a Canadian programmer named Virgil Dupras. ... Over the next decade, it grew into a programming language that he called Forth.

Given its tendency toward verbosity and strict syntax, it might not be the best idea to teach Java as an introductory programming language. Accessible alternatives to Java -- like Python -- exist and ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language.

Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language.. Swift is now ...

In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state’s systems still run on ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...