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.

In the beginning It is not the first time AI has driven a wave of new programming languages. The 1970s and 1980s saw a golden age of AI-focused languages like LISP and Prolog, which introduced ...

Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, operating a General Electric GE-225 mainframe, executed the first program in a language of their own devising: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic ...

I had to smile because, if you are a certain age, your first language may well have been assembly, even if it was assembly for machines that never existed. Of course, that was a long time ago.