Art Programming Language Design as Art Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s ...

Research conclusions could inform the design of new programming languages, coding environments and coding styles, and improve understanding of the role of programming and software in science.

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example ...

In this piece we’ll look at COBOL’s origins, how the design of the programming language stands out even today, and what makes COBOL both so enduring and so intractable. COBOL history COBOL ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet ...

The 5 most obscure programming languages are truly a sight to behold. Curated by a twisted mind, an artisan of programming language design or someone so bored out of their head that they transcend ...

HTML is not a programming language because it fails to meet several functional criteria. Nevertheless, HTML coding is valuable beyond that pedantic debate.

HTML is one of the most common programming languages used to create and design websites and pages. This type of programming language is known as a markup language, which means it is distinguished ...