Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does ...

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's ...

Despite its decline in the 1990s, BASIC's legacy lives on in modern languages like Python and Java. There are many programming languages in use today, but only a few can claim to have ...

These days, programming languages and most of the basic tools are free. Back in the 1990s, we all had to buy our development tools, and I think that spurred us to be vastly more defensive about ...

TIOBE Index for April 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent C++ and C swapped places in the April 2025 TIOBE Programming Community Index top 10, with C++ rising ...