I feel like a general-purpose programming language being designed today would want a number of things that are taken for granted, and would be weird if they weren't baked in: ...

Gosling makes a good point regarding the importance of general purpose programming languages, but Dana Gardner also makes a good point as to why Java is losing out to LAMP technologies.

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

What it is: A standardized, general-purpose programming language, its one of the most pervasive languages and the basis for several others (such as C++). Why you should learn it: “Learning C is ...

There is no doubt that Python is the world’s most widely used data science programming language. An easy-to-use and open-source language since 1991, it has been around for over 20 years. The ...

That's where programming languages come in. A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language.

That said, one aspect of the Carbon programming language that’s not particularly well outlined is Google’s involvement. While today’s presentation was shared by a Googler, and the current ...

At a high level, they all have the same building blocks: variables, operators, statements, structures, etc. Yes, some programming languages have features that are designed to handle special ...