It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with ...

The coffee shows no signs of cooling Feature It was 30 years ago when the first public release of the Java programming ...

JIT compilation allows all sorts of in-place optimizations for a running .NET program that can’t be done in C. Like C (and Java, to a degree), C# and .NET provide various mechanisms for ...

Java's origins trace back to the early 1990s, when a team at Sun Microsystems led by James Gosling set out to develop a ...

Because C is a lower-level language that is faster and requires ... added features taken from functional programming idioms that make Java code shorter and more expressive. The Java 9 release, due in ...

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it ...

Java arrived at an important moment ... and C or the emerging C++ everywhere else in commercial programming. While less popular languages filled specific niches—Ada (defense), Pascal (hobbyists ...

which is a programming paradigm that uses statements to change a program’s state. C, C++, and Java are all imperative programming languages. In 1977, distinguished computer scientist John Backus ...

SEE: Top 5 programming languages for systems admins to learn (free PDF) (TechRepublic) If you’re excited by the data and logic side of coding, you may wish to learn Python, Java, C, C++ or C#.

35-year-old programming language C++ is undergoing a revival, according to Tiobe Software, which says it is the fastest growing language of any right now. C++ is "doing very well", Tiobe CEO ...