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.

The current issue of <I>Crosstalk</I> came with a poster entitled "The Evolution of Programming Languages" showing a history tree of the derivations of various computer languages.<BR><BR>Anyone care ...

A newly published paper by Brendan Eich, CEO of Chromium-based browser Brave and the key designer of JavaScript, looks back at two decades of the definitive programming language for the web, browsers ...