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

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 ...

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).

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 ...

The evolution of language to the rise of technology The next transformative step in language development was the invention of writing. Around 3100 BCE, humans began using written symbols to ...

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.