“This is not a language you can use to program computers, just as the Lisp in the 1960 paper wasn’t,” Graham wrote. Bel was so much more work than you'd guess from looking at it.

The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th birthday on May 1, marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language brought computer abilities to the ...

In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state’s systems still run on ...