Not necessarily for the data-science and machine-learning communities built around Python extensions like NumPy and SciPy, but as a general programming language.

Arguing about which programming language is the best one is a favorite pastime among software developers. The tricky part, of course, is defining a set of criteria for "best." With software ...

We’ve moved from machine language to high-level programming, and now to natural language prompts. Vibe coding, as coined by ...

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.

A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic manner without regard to machine-specific details. See how many programming languages are there?.

We need programming languages because computers only understand machine code (binary), and these languages provide a human-readable way to give them commands. Which programming language is best ...

Intel unveils a new machine programming system, in conjunction with MIT and Georgia Tech: machine inferred code similarity.

It supposedly had a rather nasty instruction set that made the tedious nature of machine-language programming even worse, which was the first motivation to create Autocode: taming the machine.

Fundamentals of computer systems programming, machine organization, and performance tuning. This course provides a solid background in systems programming and a deep understanding of low-level machine ...

A nice aspect of the state machine concept is its compelling graphical representation in the form of state diagrams. In the modern Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.5) notation [3], states are ...

Natural Language Programming AIs are taking the drudgery out of coding But how long until they take the human out of it as well?