BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught ...

Then came programming languages with English-like syntax, ... We protect this code,” he tells me. It’s one of the tensions in OpenAI’s strategy for bringing advanced AI to the masses.

Unlike in other years, this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there’s one announcement that will surely make developers’ ears perk up: The ...

If language-as-code is taken too literally, the idea of optional rules, levels of formality, dialects, idiolects, variation, natural change over time and sheer fun will not compute. All the rules ...

However, when asked to render code in Forth (a very funky but fun language), it generated code that looked like Forth but labeled the window "Perl." It definitely did not generate Perl.

AI research firm OpenAI has announced a new version of its Codex software, which uses machine learning to translate natural English language into code. The company is releasing Codex as a free API ...

When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way ...

Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft’s own low ...

Programming languages: This sneaky trick could allow attackers to hide 'invisible' vulnerabilities in code Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Nov. 1, 2021 at 7:31 a.m. PT ...

Open source products developer Red Hat is in the process of trying to incorporate inclusive language into code. Red Hat is reexamining the words master, slave, whitelist and blacklist, said Rich Bowen ...