Recording and playout of programming today is easily left to automation and a file server. Thanks to the cloud, that server doesn’t even have to reside “on premises.” Delaying programs hasn’t always ...

The language design used elements from several other programming languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, and others, to produce a flexible and expressive syntax. Python 2 vs. Python 3 ...

[2] History of Programming Languages. In A Brief History of Computing, pp. 177-200. Springer (2021). [3] Short Historical Perspective. In Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms, pp. 519-549.

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, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

A further boost to the success of C came with the publication, in 1978, of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. The book, a slim 228 page volume, was, even for the ...

C++ surpassed Java for the first time in the history of the TIOBE index, which means that Java is at position 4 now," Jansen notes. "This is the first time that Java is not part of the top 3 since ...

Not since 2001, the year the TIOBE Index started, has a programming language held such a large percentage of community interest as Python does in 2025. Python is not the language with the highest ...