Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming ... Python, C, C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, SQL, Assembly language ...

the need for more complex programming languages surfaced. Academia and business moved away from BASIC and Pascal to languages like C and C++, which were developed by those in the tech industry. But ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, BASIC was increasingly displaced by more powerful and structured programming languages such as Pascal, C and C++. Critics criticized the often confusing BASIC code.

C++, which sees a significant amount of use within Google, is similarly a successor of sorts to the original C programming language. While some may suggest that Rust, originally a Mozilla project ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...