Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C and C++, which were developed by those in the tech industry. But forward-thinkers like Wirth set the stage for higher ...

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

C++ is currently the fastest growing programming language in Tiobe's popularity index and it's probably due to the arrival of C++20.

Language wars inevitably end up with people saying “Choose the right tool for the job.” Of course, that never seems to satisfy those diehards who think their tool is the right tool for every job.

Tiobe recognized C++ as the programming language with the biggest gain in popularity in 2022. C and Python were the runners-up.

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages.

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Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.