Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming. Implemented as a Go library, ...

Language shouldn't be a barrier to essential information, especially in local communities where people rely on public documents, school forms, health notices, or legal updates to stay informed. Yet ...

Group step-by-step instructions into procedures or functions. Procedural languages are commonly used for system programming tasks that require a series of actions to be carried out in a specific order ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to ...

June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most ...

This repository contains implementations of various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks and tools specifically for the Amharic language using Java. The goal is to provide a comprehensive set of ...

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Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor/author in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 30 years experience as an investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in… Artificial intelligence ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...