Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

Programming is basically instructions from a human to ask a computer how to process data or information. Programming has been democratised, in that anyone with some form of coherent thinking can learn ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom.

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

“We knew we had a parallel language, at a time when no computers were parallel,” said Kodosky. “We knew the parallelism aspect of LabView would play out.” Although developing LabView for test and ...

Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions… ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

Creating synthetic life could be easily within our grasp soon based on a comparison with the evolution of computer chips. Computer programming and gene synthesis appear to share little in common.