For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and ...

Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming language ...

In an unprecedented move that is likely to be emulated by other states, Florida is on track to allow high-school students to count computer coding as a foreign-language requirement (“Florida Senate ...

ComputerLanguage.com is the URL of The Computer Language Company Inc., creators of this encyclopedia. In 1981, the encyclopedia began as "The Computer Glossary." On floppies, it was "Electronic ...