The 1980s saw two notable programming languages, C++ and Objective-C, among others like Lisp, Ada, and MATLAB. If you recognize these, it’s for good reason. Both are based upon C but with ...

For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

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 ...

The Java language ... evolution of Java. The first pressure is created by the increased demand for programmers and the pressure to create programs faster and with fewer errors. This pressure was the ...

Python consolidates its place as a long-term top-three programming language. Popularity may not be a single vector answer, but students and professionals still want to know if they're guiding ...