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7 unusual programming languages that are worth taking a look at

By any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...
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The Evolution of Programming Languages

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...
TechRepublic

TIOBE Index News (August 2023): Programming Language Julia Makes a Strong Showing

TIOBE Index News (August 2023): Programming Language Julia Makes a Strong Showing Your email has been sent Explore the programming language Julia, which is suited to machine learning applications, and ...
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TIOBE Index News (January 2024): Programming Language of 2023 Goes to C#

TIOBE Index News (January 2024): Programming Language of 2023 Goes to C# Your email has been sent Keep an eye on Dart and TypeScript in 2024, TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen suggests. TIOBE Software ...
Ars Technica

The BASIC programming language turns 60

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...
Nature

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

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 ...
Analytics Insight

Best Books to Learn Perl Programming in 2025

Overview The Best Books to Learn Perl Programming help beginners and professionals master modern Perl Programming with updated concepts and practices.Perl remai ...
Wired

The Best Programming Language for the End of the World

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...
insideHPC

AI Won’t Eliminate Programming, But Can Make It Better

Software programmers are looking over their shoulders these days, fretting about how quickly large language artificial intelligence models seem to be gaining on them and, specifically, whether those ...
Wired

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...
The Next Web

Why learning 10 programming languages doesn’t make you a more interesting job candidate

New data from LinkedIn on the most in-demand jobs on the platform in the third quarter of this year reveals that software engineering is in second place. Just pipped to the post by sales roles, it is ...