The project is now reaching its final beta release phase, and Falcon has become both a standalone scripting language and a scripting engine that can drive even the most demanding applications. The ...

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process ...

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

02-21-2014 TECH Inside Erlang, The Rare Programming Language Behind WhatsApp’s Success Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition is winning the messaging wars thanks to an unusual programming language.

Information technology may thrive on the new, but it is heavily supported by a programming language more than 40 years old.

What is a Programming Language? Programming is the process of creating a set of instructions that a computer can understand and execute. These instructions tell the computer how to perform ...