The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...

At the beginning of this week, I asked, “Will Wall Street require Python?”, as an initial reaction to the appearance of Python, Perl, and Java in certain proposed new Securities and Exchange ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Supercomputing 2015 – The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, today announced the ratification and public release of the ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Researchers have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's possible to write computer programs using ordinary language rather than special-purpose programming languages. The work may be of ...

February 26, 2013. After 1.5 years of working-group effort, the Multicore Association, a global non-profit organization that develops standards to speed time-to-market for products with multicore ...

1959: A meeting at the Pentagon lays the foundations for the computer language that will later be known as COBOL, which goes on to become a mainstay of business computing for the next four decades.

In computer programming, a comment is a programming language construct used to embed programmer-readable annotations in the source code of a computer program. Those annotations are potentially ...