So what would a perfect programming language look like? I’d say: start with the best parts of C and the best parts of Python. Indentation for blocks by default, { } only for special circumstances.

Aria Beingessner, a member of the teams that implemented both Rust and Swift, has an interesting take on some of those (and other) language's problems – that C isn't a programming language anymore..

Dubbed Julia, it provides an early glimpse into what programming languages might look like in the not-too-distant future. Today's languages were each designed with different goals in mind.

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

How do programming languages get created, ... C-Suites Look To The CFO For Strategic Guidance. ... What was it like to run code on some of the world's largest supercomputers?

This is dummy code, but a function in Objective-C looks like this. Even if you’ve never programmed in your life, you can sort-of, kind-of, understand what the engineer is telling the computer to do: ...

That said, languages like Ruby handle this elegantly enough, and the perfect language terminates statements with parentheses anyway, more elegant tools from a more civilized age and all. More ...