To open up computer programming to more people, a simplified programming language was necessary — and that’s how BASIC came into existence. It became so popular after its creation in the 1960s that ...

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) ...

1 FORMAC (FORmula Manipulation Compiler) was the first language for symbolic mathematics that had significant use. See Jean E. Sammet's "The Beginning and Development of FORMAC," in History of ...

Universities and the Future of Programming Languages. Some universities haven’t stopped innovating when it comes to creating the languages themselves. Just over a decade ago, the Massachusetts ...

The history of computer programming dates back to the early 19th century when mathematicians began to develop algorithms and mathematical models to solve complex problems. In the mid-1800s, Ada ...

What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

Imagine telling a story in an Indigenous language and having a computer interpret and produce digital images for the story. Simon Fraser University (SFU) scholar Jon Corbett aims to make this happen ...

To develop a computer programming language for Indigenous languages—and currently in Cree—Corbett uses its natural language and cultural perspectives directly in the computer interface. For example, ...

Fortran refers to a general-purpose computer programming language ideal for scientific computing and numeric computation. Since its inception in the 1950s, Fortran has dominated the computationally ...