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 ...

The C programming language has influenced many other languages. Learning C enables you to understand what’s going inside a computer in general. C is also a curious creature, in that it’s a ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group of Portuguese university researchers did and set ...

C is an incredibly popular language that has been used since the 1970’s to teach computer programming. Importantly, it’s used by Harvard in its CS50 course, used to teach all of its students ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages.

Dennis Ritchie, an internationally renowned computer scientist who created the C programming language, has died at age 70. Ritchie died at his home over the weekend, according to a Google+ post ...

See pair programming, programmer, to the recruiter and naming misnomers. No Language, Just Wires In 1946, the ENIAC was programmed by plugging wires from one socket to another.

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his ...

How did Rust do it? To grasp what makes Rust so useful, it’s worth taking a peek beneath the hood at how programming languages deal with computer memory.

Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group of Portuguese university researchers did and set ...