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The Evolution of Programming Languages

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...
Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...
By any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...
Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming language ...