The language of choice is still C and despite the advances in tools and structured programming, time and again basic mistakes occur that lead to bugs and maintenance nightmares. In an attempt to avoid ...

Like many Microsoft BASIC programs, mine did weird, undocumented things to work around the language’s limitations–most of all its sluggishness, another fact Kemeny and Kurtz weren’t happy about.

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively ...

Microsoft wants to help developers create better and more reliable C programs. The company is currently conducting research into how it can extend the C programming language and help developers ...