I see Ballerina as a general-purpose programming language, whose approach to data makes it a great fit for building information systems.

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.

Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them… ...

Data-oriented programming encourages us to model data as (immutable) data, and keep the code that embodies the business logic of how we act on that data separately.

The ability to work with any programming language requires a good understanding of the data types it offers in order to comprehend the language’s possibilities and limitations. In this article ...

In this world of so-called digital transformation and cloud computing that drives our always-on über-connected lifestyles, surely it would be useful to understand how many types of data are out ...

And of course, we haven't talked about hard drives, CD-Roms, DVDs, USB thumb drives, and other similar goodies. We'll get to those more advanced types of data storage in a future episode.

Data acquisition is the process of collecting and measuring electrical signals from sensors, transducers, and test probes or fixtures and bringing them into a computer for processing. Data acquisition ...