A new programming language for image-processing ... At this month's Siggraph, the premier graphics conference, they'll present a paper on Halide, which they co-wrote with MIT computer science ...

Following Python, the top 10 programming languages in descending order are Java, C, C++, JavaScript, R, Arduino, Go, Swift and Matlab. Last year's IEEE Spectrum top 10 was similar except Matlab ...

Graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. today took the wraps off of Cg. Described as “C for graphics,” Cg is a new high-level graphics programming ... of pre-written shader examples.

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons ...

These are two key components of modern programming that were absent from popular languages like Fortran and COBOL, which were popular at the same time of ALGOL's introduction. If Fortran ...