Thinking about diving into the world of programming languages? It can seem a bit much at first, right? Well, there’s a book ...
Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...
With the rapid development of code intelligence, the application of multiple programming languages is becoming increasingly widespread. However, most existing code generation models mainly focus on a ...
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 ...
Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...
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 check certain conditions at ...
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,” ...
This is part of our Do You Recognize These? series. You may use at least one programming language regularly but you have probably used or learned about more along the way. Syntax and semantics of ...
In this paper the major components of every programming language are identified as: (1) the elementary program statement, (2) mechanisms for linking elementary statements together, (3) the means by ...