Programming languages would step forward once more in the 1990s, with high-level languages like Python, Lua, R, Ruby, and Javascript all coming to the fore. Many of these serve as the backbone of ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time?

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

Features A brief history of computer programming languages. Which do you use? Simon Raik-Allen ABC Technology and Games Updated 17 Jan 2013 (First posted 11 Jan 2013) ...

The new programming language will be necessary because once IBM’s cognitive computers become a reality, they’ll need a completely new one to run them.

While linguistics examines conveyance, processing, and the evolution of natural languages, computer science applies the same questions to programming.

How have programming languages evolved over the past 50 years? How have the early languages influenced later versions, and how are they still used today?