A programming language is designed to describe a set of consecutive actions executed by a computer. A programming language is, therefore, a practical way for us humans to give instructions to a ...

In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance. One of the ...

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 purposes.

Do we really need another programming language? There is certainly no shortage of choices already. Between imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, ...

In this article, I survey a clutch of popular programming languages and provide some personal opinions as to when it is appropriate to use each of them. I'll also talk about some of the development ...

When I ask developers “what programming language do you use?”, the answer I often get is a single language. Most developers define themselves as a Java, C++, Delphi, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, Ruby or ...

Apple’s new Swift language is the first time Cupertino has seriously changed its software underpinnings since it bought NeXT, which became the guts of Mac OS X. So how different is it, really? And ...

Andrei Alexandrescu didn't stand much of a chance. And neither did Walter Bright. When the two men met for beers at a Seattle bar in 2005, each was in the midst of building a new programming language, ...