Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

The 1990s were a boom time for new programming languages. The rise of the internet and the increasing complexity of software ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom (Opens in a new window).

The evolution of languages differs from the evolution of species because branches can converge. The Fortran branch, for example, seems to be merging with the descendants of Algol.

The programming languages that developers use to create the applications we now find commonplace evolve faster than ever before.Hardware and infrastr. The Evolution of Programming [Infographic ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.

Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, to ...

How have programming languages evolved over the past 50 years? How have the early languages influenced later versions, and how are they still used today?