And software written in these languages used much more memory. So the world of programming became divided, roughly, into two tribes.

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...