Programming languages would step forward once more in the 1990s, with high-level languages like Python, Lua, R, Ruby, and Javascript all coming to the fore. Many of these serve as the backbone of ...

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF: 701K), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. About the Author ...

Links Rendle.dev History of Programming Part 1 in 2014 (video) The Worst Programming Language Ever (video) History of the World, Part I ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking ...

Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, to ...

Let's look at the history of Java and how it became a go-to programming language for developers everywhere. Humble Java beginnings Enterprise Java arrived at a pivotal time in the history of ...

“There they taught us the new programming language Fortran in a week, and then we were professional programmers,” he said. Since then, Gries has been a dedicated member of the Cornell faculty.

Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 6, 2022 at 5:01 a.m. PT Image: Shutterstock / iJeab C++ has overtaken Java to be the third most popular language in the Tiobe programming language index.