What does programming language actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

What is a programming language? To discuss why something is or is not a programming language, we must establish a baseline definition of what a computer programming language is. To do that, we must ...

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 ...