As ZDNet noted when Ritchie died in in 2011, C is the "heart of programming … as the quintessential expression of coding elegance, power, simplicity and portability." It's also a language that ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based ... That's why Swift is relatively far down the chart. Objective-C is being usurped by Swift -- and ...