An example of a strictly-typed language is ActionScript (the language Flash apps are written in), and the same variable declaration we just wrote would look like this in ActionScript 3: var ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...

Popularized by the Turbo Pascal programming language, Pascal case requires the first letter of a variable be uppercase, along with the first letter of every new word compounded together to create the ...

The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good programming to students who had previously come into contact with BASIC.