The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.

This book is edited by Li Hui and Chen Yanyan, with associate editors Yang Yu, Gao Yong, Zhang Qiaosheng, Bi Ye, and Liu Dengzhi. It is rich in content, covering 32 theories and 32 practical cases, ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

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.

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Zoho's Deluge language transforms coding for non-developers, with plans to make it open-source and add AI capabilities.

Researchers at Google DeepMind say their AlphaCode AI program can keep up with the average human coder in standardized programming contests.