Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

Gradually, abstraction became the guiding principle in software development trends, giving birth to object-oriented programming (OOP) and languages like Java and Python.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...

This language is low in abstraction, meaning it's closer to the hardware itself. A quantum computing startup called Quantum Machines has released a new programming language called QUA.

Back in February 2009, he discovered a reference to the Orleans software platform, which described it as "a new software platform that runs on Microsoft’s Windows Azure system and provides the ...

Applications and systems programming under UNIX(tm), including project management, interfacing to the operating system, and data abstraction. Programming assignments and a final programming project ...

Crypto finally gets user friendly, with the ERC-4337 “account abstraction” standard meaning new users can join any EVM-compatible blockchain without understanding seed phrases, private keys or ...

The DAP benchmark allows the measurement of the performance of small objects in Java, giving developers a clue as to the abstraction penalty imposed by the Java compiler and runtime environment.